The Band And I

We played heads-up in a car in Seattle, god rock on the radio You look like a superstar, and Dom got into Juilliard And I’m really bad at heads up, what do you know My drummer fell for a girl in a cookie shop He said he’d make a move, and then he went with ‘excuse me’ Came a boy and left a man, gotta give it to the band, greatest one in Oregon And looking back, all I know is It was friday nights, it was video gold Oh it was shining lights, it was rock and roll It was the band and I on a 12 bed bus, and it was making and messing it up It was endless roads, in the same old boots Oh it was letting go, of everything but you It was the band and I on a 12 bed bus, if we’re living the dream, I hope we never wake up Snowstorm in the middle of Texas, called my mother in a Denny’s and lied Told her I’d been eating then, told her you were just friend Told her I was homesick, I hadn’t thought of home twice Drive and then we drive again to an ocean, and I think I knew it then for a moment It was friday nights, it was video gold Oh it was shining lights, it was rock and roll It was the band and I on a 12 bed bus, and it was making and messing it up It was endless roads, in the same old boots Oh it was letting go of everything but you It was the band and I on a 12 bed bus, if we’re living the dream, I hope we never wake up I hope we never wake up x4 Two nights in the El Rey went flying, I’m 21 and I feel evergreen The band go home, I stay to write, we drive around, I stay the night Guys I’m pretty sure it’s the American Dream It was changing clocks, it was Tina stoned, oh it was midnight stops at border control Yeah it was power cuts, it was certain doom, it was living in the Little Rock laundry room Oh it was breaking down, it was falling in love, in a gas station by the pickup trucks In Philadelphia, it was crystal clear, we are the best damn band that’s ever played right here It was magic babe, pure and strong, it was the last man standing for the Eagles song It was a farflung wish when we were young, now we’re living the dream and I hope we never wake up