Generation Loss

You twenty-nine year panic attack

And not the fashionable kind

The kind where you wake up and say

Man, I just wanna survive

But this world is short on empathy

You got out of your parent's place

Started making money

Crashed your car and now they want your laces

And they gave you just enough

To make you feel like you fucked up

When you realized you couldn't keep yourself clean

Kid, you're not half bad

Could even be more than your dad

So why're you complaining

If they're not listening?

We're just so fucking tired of explaining ourselves

We throw a pill down our throats

Or ourselves into the ocean

'Cause half our friends are dead

The other half are depressed

In this budget-rate life

The borderline's looking thin

Driving out into the water

Because you took that leap of faith

All I see is you floating

So I turned my stereo up

You're living bender to bender

I only saw you when we were high

You're finally touching down and I'm folding

You said, enough is not enough

You always feel like you've fucked up

So what's the point of keeping yourself in line?

They won't name you in the papers

I see you out past the breakers

That same smile you've had since you were five

We're just so fucking tired of explaining ourselves

We throw a pill down our throats

Or ourselves into the ocean

'Cause half our friends are dead

The other half are depressed

In this budget-rate life

The borderline's looking thin

I know that life is long enough

Didn't think you'd speed it up

Feel selfish that we still want you alive

The memorial wasn't bad

Some people tried to understand

Thought you were complaining

But we weren't listening

'Cause we're just so fucking tired

Of explaining ourselves

We throw a pill down our throats

Or ourselves into the ocean

'Cause half our friends are dead

The other half are depressed

In this budget-rate life

The borderline's looking thin

So we throw ourselves into the ocean