Boy - Bayside

He can’t make sense of this

He’s just too normal

This place is too scary

He’s so scared that he’ll miss

It keeps him in hiding

And restless and wanting

What if for one minute

He’s given a chance

And he does something brilliant

But he’d rather not know

Cause walls protect him

His bedroom’s a prison

Now is your chance boy just ignore

The dreadful things they say

Go on, give up, you’ll never win,

No crying now, they’re watching him

His blood will boil, the kids will sing

Learn to drown before you learn to swim.

If he took his time to prepare,

Stepped out of his shell

Blows an addiction

Such a comforting place,

A common mistake,

A dry wishing well.

Now is your chance boy just ignore

The dreadful things they say

Go on, give up, you’ll never win,

No crying now, they’re watching him

His blood will boil, the kids will sing

Learn to drown before you learn to swim.

So go on, give up, you’ll never win

Oh what a mistake

He is charcoal within

He could never direct by them

He stands on the stage

With a grin

But he drops on his knees

And is waiting for anything he can believe in

He’s lost, he just wants to be ordinary

Now is your chance boy just ignore

The dreadful things they say

Go on, give up, you’ll never win

No crying now, they’re watching him

His blood will boil, the kids will sing.

Learn to drown before you learn to swim.

Go on, give up, you’ll never win

No crying now, they’re watching him

His blood will boil, the kids will sing.

Learn to drown before you learn to swim.

Go on, give up, you’ll never win

No crying now, they’re watching him

His blood will boil, the kids will sing.

Learn to drown before you learn to swim.

Go on, give up, you’ll never win

No crying now, they’re watching him

Go on, give up, you’ll never win.