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Loadin’ up the night with nothin’ to prove

Bonfire smoke and an old excuse

Rust on the strings of a borrowed tune

Just kids with hearts that bruise too soon

Cigarettes and second chances

She swayed like sin in Sunday dances

Talked like thunder, kissed like pain

Burned like kerosene in the rain

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Yeah, here we are now, broken and free

Screamin’ at stars that don’t ever speak

We were rebels with no real cause

Dyin’ to matter, scared of the cost

Ghosts of my youth still howl in the wind

Raised by the dark we were drownin’ in

Here we are now, wild and used

Nothin’ to lose, nothin’ to prove

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Cheap beer dreams in a high school lot

All bark and fire and crooked thoughts

We carved our names in the devil’s tree

Prayin’ someday we’d finally leave

She wore eyeliner like a loaded gun

Said “Don’t grow up, it ruins the fun”

But I’ve seen the mirror and felt the years

Now I drink just to keep her near

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Yeah, here we are now, broken and free

Singin’ to ghosts that don’t believe

We were thunder that never struck

Hearts full of hope and hands full of dust

Runnin’ from homes we swore we’d defend

Laughin’ at nothin’ and fightin’ our friends

Here we are now, cracked but true

Nothin’ to lose, nothin’ to prove

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We lit the match and watched it blow

Never knew what we had ‘til it let us go

But God, I miss that reckless light

The war cries in the dead of night

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Here we are now, faded and torn

Rippin’ at seams we were born to mourn

We were wildfire, we were dust and spit

Said we’d burn out, and we sure as hell did

Ghosts of my youth still walk with my shoes

And I still wear ‘em, with nothin’ to lose

Here we are now, me and the truth—

Nothin’ to lose, nothin’ to prove