If I´m lucky enough, I´ll see fogs lift with suns
As we roll to play a show in Carolina, Oklahoma or Chicago
I´ll grow to know the road to home in places far away

Wrinkled, bald and beat to shit to never waste a day
Enough people will hate me that I know I did it right
But to never meet a human being that I say that I don´t like
Let me learn the hard way and cut it close sometimes
That youth is the attic chest where every lesson lies
I´ll have some kids and teach them that we are all the same
Sufferin´, smilin´, silhouettes of every passin´ day
The love I have will always be something my friends yearn
My memories were never cheap and never easy earned

I hope to choke on jack and coke in a bar during a northern winter
On a night the band was tight and right as rooftop lights flicker
If I´m lucky enough, I´ll understand losing someone close
I´ll clench my teeth on New Year´s Eve and try to talk to ghosts
I´ll stumble through a market on a Sunday in June
Smell the salt and asphalt on Sunday afternoon
I reckon I´d be lucky if I made it half as far
To only die on hills that are closest to my heart
If I´m lucky enough, notebooks will be strewn across my room
I´ll play catch on green grass where springtime flowers bloom
If I´m lucky enough, I´ll tell the truth every chance I get

´Cause smiles faked to appease another is worth ten regrets
If I´m lucky enough, I will get through hard things
And they will make me gentle to the ways of the world
If I´m lucky enough, I´ll have the courage to leave and go
Wherever my beatin´ heart tells me to go
If I´m lucky enough, I´ll get high and invite a guitar player over
And he´ll play sweet notes until a New York City-rooftop sun rises
I´ll meet some kids in school that still know how to play instruments
If I´m lucky enough, I´ll make it exactly to where I´m taking this breath now
Lay my head upon the earth and laugh at passing clouds

If I´m lucky enough, I´ll remember the shaky things we´ve seen
Grab your beer through tears and fears, the great American bar scene