Lyric discussion by mb20lifehouse 

Cover art for Real World lyrics by Matchbox Twenty

“I came to this realization that we were going to make a record and I was going to be in a band and that all of a sudden, I was 23, 24 years old and no matter what I did, I was never going to be a fireman. I was never going to be a policeman… and it’s like if you weren’t doing that, would everything change? Would everybody think of me the same as if I were just like working in a fast-food restaurant.”