Rite Of Spring

Album: I-Empire (2007)
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  • I was locked all day in the summer heat
    In a small brown house in suburban streets
    With a skateboard and my shit guitar
    I dreamed all day that they would get me far
    My dad would ask me about my grades
    The asshole sports that I never played
    And then I'd ask about the girls he'd date
    Behind our backs when mom had stayed up late
    It was near when I turned sixteen
    Got kicked out of school and so it seemed
    Things were closing in and ready to blow
    My dad moved out about that year or so
    It took an hour to start a punk rock band
    To upset my fucked up family land
    And as I held my mum would start to cry
    I swore ourselves, a better life

    If I had a chance for another try
    I wouldn't change a thing
    This made me all on who I am inside
    And if I could thank God
    That I am here, and that I am alive
    And everyday I wake
    I tell myself a little harmless lie
    The whole wide world is mine

    The summers gone, the years have passed
    My friends have changed, a few did last
    The smallest dreams got pushed aside
    The largest ones that changed my life
    And all I wish for has come to pass
    From rock and roll, to love and cash
    It's all success if it's what you need
    Do what you like and do it honestly

    If I had a chance for another try
    I wouldn't change a thing
    This made me all on who I am inside
    And if I could thank God
    That I am here and that I am alive
    And everyday I wake
    I tell myself a little harmless lie
    The whole wide world is mine

    Hey oh oh oh
    Hey oh oh
    Hey oh oh oh
    Hey oh oh
    Hey oh oh oh
    Hey oh oh
    Hey oh oh oh
    Hey oh oh

    If I had a chance for another try
    I wouldn't change a thing
    This made me all on who I am inside
    And if I could thank God
    That I am here, and that I am alive
    And everyday I wake
    I tell myself a little harmless lie
    The whole wide world is mine (the whole wide world is mine)
    If I had a chance for another try
    I wouldn't change a thing
    This made me all on who I am inside (the whole wide world is mine)
    And if I could thank God
    That I am here, and that I am alive (the whole wide world is mine)
    And everyday I wake
    I tell myself a little harmless lie (the whole wide world is mine)
    The whole wide world is mine Writer/s: Thomas DeLonge
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Chris from Spokane, WaThis my favorite song on I-Empire.
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