That's how it starts

We go back to your house

You check the charts

And start to figure it out

And if it's crowded, all the better

Because we know we're gonna be up late

But if you're worried about the weather

Then you picked the wrong place to stay

That's how it starts

And so it starts

You flick the engines on

You set controls for the heart of the sun

One of the ways that we show our age

And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up

If the sun comes up and I still don't wanna stagger home

Then it's the memory of our betters

That are keeping us on our feet

You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan

And the next five years trying to be with your friends again

You're talking forty-five turns just as fast as you can

Yeah, I know it gets tired, but it's better when we pretend

It comes apart

The way it does in bad films

Except the part

Where the moral kicks in

Though we're running out of the drugs

And the conversation's grinding away

I wouldn't trade one stupid decision

For another five years of life

You drop the next ten years just as fast as you can

And the next ten people who are trying to be polite

When you're blowing eighty-five days in the middle of France

Yeah, I know it gets tired

only where are your friends tonight?

Just tell the truth

Oh, this could be the last time

So here we go

Like a sales force into the night

And if I made a fool, if I made a fool

If I made a fool on the road, there's always this

And if I'm sued into submission

I can still come home to this

And with a face like a dad and a laughable stand

You can sleep on the plane or review what you said

When you're drunk and the kids look impossibly tanned

You think over and over, "Hey, I'm finally dead"

If the trip and the plan come apart in your hand

And you can turn it on yourself, you ridiculous clown

You forget what you meant when you read what you said

You always knew you were tired

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

Where are your friends tonight?

If I could see all my friends tonight

If I could see all my friends

If I could see all my friends tonight