Back to Normal - Keep Virginia Beautiful Lyrics
The east coast may be homeBut I want to go where no one knows my nameI stay up late when I need to get up early and can never make things rightBut this awkward thing we’ve got going on ends tonightOr maybe not ‘cause I don’t have the courage to be considered aloneAnd all my friends are busy whenever I come homeI’m tired of being stuck in your shadow, this cloudy overcastLeft on by what everyone swore wouldn’t lastBut I managed to keep up all my faith when you managed to simply toss me awayLike an old magazine full of bands that you now hateAnd I thought you would be differentAnd I thought you weren’t like the restAnd I thought I could count on the one who kept me from hitting the groundJust before I lost my self respectThe east coast may be homeBut I want to go where no one knows my nameI can’t get down with poetry, their contrived metaphors and forced rhyme schemesIt won’t help me face the facts, I’m down and lonely‘Cause the only thing that ever brought me up was seeing your face at the end of the monthAs you watched my band play for some grungy clubAnd I thought you would be differentAnd I thought you weren’t like the restAnd I thought I could count on the one who kept me from hitting the groundJust before I lost my self respectThe east coast may be homeBut I want to go where no one knows my nameSo far away ‘till I can’t see my house anymoreAnd hopefully I will be half the person I was before you met meI wish I could swim back to shore ‘cause I’m sure it’s so much safer when I’m homeAnd the only thing keeping me afloat is the constant hope that’s tearing up my soulI wish I could swim back to shore ‘cause I’m sure it’s so much safer when I’m homeAnd the only thing keeping me afloat is the constant hope that’s tearing up my soul
