We were just kids, underachieved, runnin on contraband drive

Backyard gigs, AXP, drinking till the early sunrise

Beginning of an era, occupation concern,

a boy makes a man's tough choice

Paltry income, wood that won't burn,

listen to the desperate voice



Now it's 1997

I got no plans but the future's coming fast

1997

Oh, oh this is what I know



Five years gone, the pressure just mounts,

a boulder that just won't budge

Alternatives closed, better find that sound,

what you got just aint enough

Sink or swim, sea of defeat, 10,000 miles of road

Unified plunge, drunken colleagues,

tears through a foreign pay phone



Now it's 1997

I got no plans but the future's coming fast, 

1997 

Oh, oh this is what I know

1997

Better make plans or the future's gonna pass

1997

Oh, oh I just don't know 



We were just kids, indecisive not dumb,

adolescent state of mind

No one's packing in, traveling bums, failure is far behind