Don't Coast

Catastrophic mess
Has got a hold on me
“Soon you’ll understand”
He smiled right at me
And really, I don’t know
Why the earth just spins
When all the time we’ve got
Keeps going, it never ends

You get up, you get down
In the words, you’ll drown
‘Cause in the end you’re all I got
And in the end it’s time to stop.

Always take it slow
With your pen you strike the page
And you gotta love
How this life is a stage
But the clock says ten
So let’s go again
Kid, you don’t coast.

You speed up, you slow down, down…

This’ll be the last
Time it’ll happen again
Gotta watch your step
‘Cause you can trip and slip and fall -
“I’m alright to drive!”
He shouts and bangs his head
What he doesn’t know
Would likely make him dead.

You can kick, you can shout
If that’s what you’re all about
But when the sun sets in the downtown
I will know I’ve been around.

Lalalalala!
Lalalalalala
Make or break yourself!
‘Cause I’m not doing it for you
Satellite’s on high!
I hear the sweet sweet sound
The kiss of melody!
Now I love…

You never really know!
When you’ll come apart
Everything you love
Is falling on your mind
And the clock strikes ten
So let’s go back home
No, I don’t coast.

We don’t coast no more.

We crash like waves, kid