I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
With times changin', people come and they go. Things will happen in life that'll get you low. And I know that this is all just a game. I try to be just the same and I see that ...
I failed out of school today cause I stayed up till four but that's ok, I like to live that way. Like a casualty of getting old. I just lost my job cause I can't do what I am told.
And I might say hey ...
I wish I were in junior high again. Cutting class and smoking cigarettes. Time went by before my eyes. I wish I were in junior high.
When I wake up, my lunch was already made. There's nothing for me to do but to get good grades. With times changin', there's more to life than my grades. The poor decisions I've made led me to this place.
It's lunch time and story time. I told you I wanted my fruit snacks and some milk and maybe it won't spill. Your girlfriend, she left you. Oh well now, what can you do but grow up and get a job and move out and lose out now.
I wish I were in junior high again.
I failed out of school today cause I stayed up till four but that's ok, I like to live that way. Like a casualty of getting old. I just lost my job cause I can't do what I am told.
And I might say hey ...
I wish I were in junior high again. Cutting class and smoking cigarettes. Time went by before my eyes. I wish I were in junior high.
When I wake up, my lunch was already made. There's nothing for me to do but to get good grades. With times changin', there's more to life than my grades. The poor decisions I've made led me to this place.
It's lunch time and story time. I told you I wanted my fruit snacks and some milk and maybe it won't spill. Your girlfriend, she left you. Oh well now, what can you do but grow up and get a job and move out and lose out now.
I wish I were in junior high again.
Lyrics submitted by onemorebrokenheart
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this song makes me hella sad. i just got out of junior high, and if thats as good as it gets, to hell with this life. i'm opptomistic though, it'll be sweet to get out of this house, and then out of this city. what can you do but grow up and get a job and move out and lose out now. thats the plan actually.....