English 11 Honors

“No Such Thing”

performed by John Mayer
from the Room for Squares CD

“Welcome to the real world,”
she said to me
Condescendingly
Take a seat
Take your life
Plot it out in black and white
Well I never lived the dream
of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I’d like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something’s better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls
of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there’s
no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you’ve got to rise above

So the good boys and girls take the
so called right track
Faded white hat
Grabbing credits
Maybe transfers
They read all the books but they
can’t find the answers
All of our parents
They’re getting older
I wonder if they’ve wished
for anything better
While in their memories
Tiny tragedies

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something’s better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls
of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there’s
no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you’ve got to rise above

I am invincible
I am invincible
I am invincible,
As long as I’m alive

I wanna run through the halls
of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there’s
no such thing as the real world
Just a lie you’ve got to rise above

I just can’t wait for
my 10 year reunion
I’m gonna bust down
the double doors
And when I stand on
these tables before you
You will know what all this time
was for