Released: November 17, 1998
Songwriter: Dexter Holland
Producer: Dave Jerden
[Verse 1]
When we were young the future was so bright (Woah)
The old neighborhood was so alive (Woah)
And every kid on the whole damn street (Woah)
Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn (Woah)
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn (Woah)
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives?
[Chorus]
Chances thrown, nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard, hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
(Go!)
[Verse 2]
Jamie had a chance, well she really did (Woah)
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids (Woah)
Mark still lives at home 'cause he's got no job (Woah)
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot
Jay committed suicide (Woah)
Brandon OD'd and died (Woah)
What the hell is going on?
The cruelest dream, reality
[Chorus]
Chances thrown, nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard, hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
(Go!)
[Outro]
Chances thrown, nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard, hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
When we were young the future was so bright (Woah)
The old neighborhood was so alive (Woah)
And every kid on the whole damn street (Woah)
Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn (Woah)
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn (Woah)
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives?
[Chorus]
Chances thrown, nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard, hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
(Go!)
[Verse 2]
Jamie had a chance, well she really did (Woah)
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids (Woah)
Mark still lives at home 'cause he's got no job (Woah)
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot
Jay committed suicide (Woah)
Brandon OD'd and died (Woah)
What the hell is going on?
The cruelest dream, reality
[Chorus]
Chances thrown, nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard, hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
(Go!)
[Outro]
Chances thrown, nothing's free
Longing for what used to be
Still it's hard, hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
Guitar Hero Live GHTV Soundtrack
- Been Away Too Long
- No Excuses
- Creepin’
- Do Me a Favor
- Spoonman
- She Looks So Perfect
- Disposable Teens
- The Fight Song
- mOBSCENE
- Higher Ground
- The One I Love
- Sing
- Hammer to Fall
- I Want to Break Free
- Shiny Happy People
- Stache (High Princess)
- Man in the Box
- Thunder on the Mountain
- Eye of the Tiger
- The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball
- Girls
- That’s My Kind of Night
- First Date
- Girls / Girls / Boys
- Sirens
- I Am Mine
- Pour Some Sugar on Me
- Somebody to You
- Addicted to Love
- I Want You to Know
- American You
- Nothing But a Good Time
- Children of the Night
- Party Like Tomorrow Is the End of the World
- Don’t Be Cruel
- Working for the Weekend
- Rock the Night
- Love Me
- Let’s Go
- Real Wild Child (Wild One)
- Uma Thurman
- Irresistible
- Blaze of Glory
- Because We Can
- I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
- Jessie’s Girl
- Left Hand Free
- Chasing the Sun
- Centuries
- Drown
- Something in the Water
- Famous
- Deep Six
- Dangerous
- Hanging on the Telephone
- Erase Me
- Oh Love
- Before He Cheats
- Under Cover of Darkness
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- You Know I’m No Good
- Live While We’re Young
- Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
- Try
- Them Bones
- Black Hole Sun
- I Want It All
- Sugar, We’re Goin Down
- Lust for Life
- You Only Live Once
- Let It Rock
- The Lazy Song
- All the Small Things
- The Rock Show
- Losing My Religion
- Freak on a Leash
- Reptilia
- Livin’ on a Prayer
- American Idiot
- We Are the Champions
- Good Girl
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- Sweater Weather
- Two Princes
- Dammit
- Monster
- We Built This City
- Going Under
- The Reason
- The Day I Tried to Live
- Black Rain
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Duality
- Taken for a Fool
- Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- The Kids Aren’t Alright
- Counting Stars
- My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’Em Up)
- Hangar 18
- Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
- Rock of Ages
- Valentine’s Day
- What About Love?
- Before I Forget
- Still into You
- Let Her Go
- Iris
- Chocolate
- Stone
- Guitar Hero Live GHTV Soundtrack
- Americana (1998)
- The Faculty: Music from the Dimension Motion Picture (1999)
- Woodstock 99 (1999)
- Greatest Hits (2005)
- Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
- You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid
- Self Esteem
- The Kids Aren’t Alright
- Come Out and Play (Keep ’Em Separated)
- Why Don’t You Get a Job?
- Gone Away
- Bad Habit
- Want You Bad
- Hit That
- Original Prankster
- Americana
- All I Want
- Let the Bad Times Roll
- Gotta Get Away
- Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing and Rides the Bomb to Hell
- She’s Got Issues
- Smash
- Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?
- Hammerhead
- Walla Walla
- Have You Ever
- Staring at the Sun
- We Never Have Sex Anymore