All You Can Ever Learn Is What You Already Know (in Album So Long, Astoria) Lyrics

All You Can Ever Learn Is What You Already Know (in Album So Long, Astoria)

is this how it was intended???

the sunrise over smokestacks in the Midwest

the beauty of this abandoned factory.

Christmas lights blinking on and off

all out of time in what used to be

your pink house dreams 

of a middle class America.



i'm trying to, beleive in you

but all these satellites and

shattered dreams are 

blocking out my veiw.

please don't forget,

who you really are,

cause nothing really 

matters when we're gone.



fell in love with his Keno waitress,

the honeymooned in Memphis,

they were married by the drive-up window.

Trailor parks, neon signs, 

and an empty box of Lucky Strikes

all used up on the 

dashboard of America,



i'm trying to, beleive in you

this world has sold it's faith 

for parking lots and drunk sincerity,

please don't forget who you really are,

nothing really matters when we're



you'll be saddened to know 

the train tracks you once walked, 

as a young boy, are now 

nothing but a grave yard.



please don't forget,

how small we really are,

cuz nothing really matters 

when we're gone...

i'm trying to beleive in you.