Northsiders

I was new in town, kinda goth

I met you in the science quad

You asked if I had any pot

We're going up to Mikey's spot

Covering important ground

I tried cocaine in my cousin's house

Yeah, I'm probably addicted now

The things that children lie about

I didn't notice it was getting late

You offered me a place to stay

We live up in the palisades

Tell your folks you ran away

Besides, you're a Northsider now

Nothing's going to change it, pal

We were so pretentious then

Didn't trust the government

Said that we were communists

And thought that we invented it

Morrissey apologists

Amateur psychologists

Serial monogamists

We went to different colleges

But you said that we would always be

Branches on the same old tree

Reaching away from each other for eternity

And you know I can't argue with that

Nothing's going to change it now

We could have had one last hurrah

When I was working in the smoothie shop

But I couldn't get the weekend off

She told me I was getting soft

I read an article about the accident

Probably reaching for cigarettes

And missed the brake lights up ahead

I hope it was an instant death

Sometimes I imagine us way down the line

Getting fat somewhere in the countryside

It's crazy how things shake out sometimes

But maybe that's enough magic for me

Nothing's going to change it now