Gap Year / I Already Know
Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day
Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Let me start at the beginning, or I guess it was the ending
Of my senior year of high school when I was young and grinning
And I said that I didn't want to go to college
Didn't wanna waste my time and throw away a lot of money
That I will need to follow my dream
Which is to make a Ska-Punk record and dominate the scene
The people that I talk to they don't understand me
They look at me like I'm a freak they all say the same thing
They say
"Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day
Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away!"
They say I'm throwin' it away!
And I guess it looks that way when for twelve years
All of our supposed teachers teach us to fear
What our life will become without some dumb piece of paper
That I could print at Kinko's and it'd mean the same thing as anyone else with a degree
To me, I have a direction
For me, to be, I have a direction
But society doesn't see what I want to do as good for me
And they put the pressure on me
They say
"Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day
Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away!"
I know that I'm taking a big fucking risk
But I can't do anything else right
So I might as well take a chance on the things that I can
And if I fail I will let everyone down
All the people that have helped me get to where I wanna be
All the time and all the money everybody's faith in me
All of that will go to waste if I don't make it and
All the guilt that follows that will surely be the death of me
But I'm committed now
And I'm not going back
Oh no
"Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day!
You're throwing your life away!"
I've been told that I have a bit of an ego
And it's been said that I'm not politically correct
And I've never been diagnosed
But I'm pretty sure I have
Imposter Syndrome
And I know that I've got a really bad temper
And I'm well aware my pride gets in the way
Of doing what is right
And I know what it looks like
But beneath it all my hearts in the right place
Oh you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't waste my time, I'm well aware
(I already know)
I'm full of it
I'm far from perfect
And it doesn't bear repeating
So let's move on
Yeah I know that I'm a-way to clingy
And I don't know when to let things go
I can see that I'm rough around the edges
And I know I've made some poor decisions
Oh you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't waste my time, I'm well aware
(I already know)
I'm full of it
I'm far from perfect
And it doesn't bear repeating
So let's move on
And I'm sure that I have hurt some people
That I cared about somewhere along the line
And I'm sorry that I did
I'd do anything to fix it
But even if I could fix everything
I'm not changing who I am so
You don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't waste my time, I'm well aware
(I already know)
I'm full of shit
I'm far from perfect
And it doesn't bear repeating
So let's move on
Oh, you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't remind me
(I already know)
I'm not pretending
(I already know)
So you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day
Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Let me start at the beginning, or I guess it was the ending
Of my senior year of high school when I was young and grinning
And I said that I didn't want to go to college
Didn't wanna waste my time and throw away a lot of money
That I will need to follow my dream
Which is to make a Ska-Punk record and dominate the scene
The people that I talk to they don't understand me
They look at me like I'm a freak they all say the same thing
They say
"Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day
Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away!"
They say I'm throwin' it away!
And I guess it looks that way when for twelve years
All of our supposed teachers teach us to fear
What our life will become without some dumb piece of paper
That I could print at Kinko's and it'd mean the same thing as anyone else with a degree
To me, I have a direction
For me, to be, I have a direction
But society doesn't see what I want to do as good for me
And they put the pressure on me
They say
"Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day
Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away!"
I know that I'm taking a big fucking risk
But I can't do anything else right
So I might as well take a chance on the things that I can
And if I fail I will let everyone down
All the people that have helped me get to where I wanna be
All the time and all the money everybody's faith in me
All of that will go to waste if I don't make it and
All the guilt that follows that will surely be the death of me
But I'm committed now
And I'm not going back
Oh no
"Whoa-oh-oh
You're throwing your life away
Whoa-oh-oh
You're making a big mistake
Whoa-oh-oh
You won't even last a day!
You're throwing your life away!"
I've been told that I have a bit of an ego
And it's been said that I'm not politically correct
And I've never been diagnosed
But I'm pretty sure I have
Imposter Syndrome
And I know that I've got a really bad temper
And I'm well aware my pride gets in the way
Of doing what is right
And I know what it looks like
But beneath it all my hearts in the right place
Oh you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't waste my time, I'm well aware
(I already know)
I'm full of it
I'm far from perfect
And it doesn't bear repeating
So let's move on
Yeah I know that I'm a-way to clingy
And I don't know when to let things go
I can see that I'm rough around the edges
And I know I've made some poor decisions
Oh you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't waste my time, I'm well aware
(I already know)
I'm full of it
I'm far from perfect
And it doesn't bear repeating
So let's move on
And I'm sure that I have hurt some people
That I cared about somewhere along the line
And I'm sorry that I did
I'd do anything to fix it
But even if I could fix everything
I'm not changing who I am so
You don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't waste my time, I'm well aware
(I already know)
I'm full of shit
I'm far from perfect
And it doesn't bear repeating
So let's move on
Oh, you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
Please don't remind me
(I already know)
I'm not pretending
(I already know)
So you don't have to tell me
(I already know)
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Writer(s): Austen Mulligan
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