Gates - The Menzingers

I am the pain that beats through your temples

Every morning when you wake up

I am the boy with alcohol poisoning

From all the parties Chris was throwing

That summer that they took us in

Like every other American

For getting drunk round the back of the Lions' Club

Waiting for the shitty bands to finish up

And some kids played hacky sack while the others just got high

It’s not hard to fall for a waitress

When you both smoke, smoke the same cigarettes

You’ll get seated as diner’s lovers

She’ll get the check as friends for the better

You’ll carve your names into the Paupack cliffs

Just to read them when you get old enough to know

That happiness is just a moment

So, I’m marching up to your gates today

To throw my lonely soul away

'Cause I don’t need it, you can take it back

So, I’m marching up to your gates today

To throw my lonely soul away

'Cause I don’t need it, you can take it back

And they will make examples out of us

Like when they caught you in the CVS parking lot

But I fed the liars, I fed the liars

I fed the liars everything I got, everything I got

In my cabinet brain of canned thoughts

It was everything I got, oh everything I got

In my cabinet brain, in my cabinet brain

So, I’m marching up to your gates today

To throw my lonely soul away

'Cause I don’t need it, you can take it back

So, I’m marching up to your gates today

To throw my lonely soul away

'Cause I don’t need it, you can take it back

So, I’m marching up to your gates today

To throw my lonely soul away

I don’t need it, you can take it back