Barenaked Ladies - Everything Old Is New Again lyrics

Words & music by stephen duffy & steven page

Learn to loseit's easier that way

We've paid our duesbut we can't make life pay

All across the worldpeople going mad

In their mother's carsthe kids are feeling sad

That's how it isand I'll see you later

Everything old is new again

Everything under the sun

Now that I'm back with you again

We hug and we kiss

We sit and make lists

We drink and I bandage your wrists

Wasted youth -- there wasn't much to waste

Down to the boneand still losing weight

With all the wishing in the world glistening in her eyes

But when I say I love hershe thinks I'm telling lies

Is it all lost? nowe never had it

Everything old is new again

Everything under the sun

All of our fears come true again

Recycle reuse

Resent and refuse

Our parent's ideals and view

She thinks the afterlife might just be where the action is

With high schools built like prisonsshe can't find a way to live

Moved back home to fill the empty nest

Afraid to roamin love with second best

While somewhere in the worldshe's hosting her own show

And everyone she questions never seems to know

Who they are and where they are going

Everything old is new again

Everything under the sun

Now that I'm without you again

I wake up and eat

I go back to sleep

And let my nightmares repeat

All across the worldpeople going mad