Strike Gold-Brighter Brightest

[00:01.00]I used to think that people got big writing good songs from the heart [00:08.93]But now I know that people just like to get a number one on the pop chart [00:15.88]I used to drive around listening to blink [00:19.91]I used to wonder what everybody else would think about the songs I wrote and are they good enough for the radio? [00:30.95]Everybody's falling apart. [00:33.80]Do you know it doesn't have to be so hard? [00:38.10]It seems everybody thought it would be easy to strike gold, but you sold out. [00:45.61]You see I didn't wanna be someone else, I hit the road, [00:50.73]played some shows to become myself. [00:53.39]It seems everybody thought it'd be easy to strike gold, but you sold out. [01:02.96]I used to see NFG every summer when they came through town [01:09.40]Front row, every show with my best friends singing along [01:15.29]dreaming about [01:16.92]walking out on stage every single night [01:20.78]saying my bands name hoping that they like the songs I wrote about my life.. [01:29.39]I think I got the dream right [01:31.87]But now everybody's falling apart. [01:35.18]Do you know it doesn't have to be so hard? [01:39.36]It seems everybody thought it would be easy to strike gold, but you sold out. [01:47.40]You see I didn't wanna be someone else, I hit the road, [01:52.20]played some shows to become myself. [01:54.74]It seems everybody thought it'd be easy to strike gold, but you sold out. [02:04.34]All of the time that you spent pulling strings trying to be the next big [02:10.87]thing, you could have spent your time just writing songs finding out [02:17.18]just who you are [02:19.69]And my favourite part of this is while you played pretend you missed [02:27.21]that it's deep down where you find the hits, the hits [02:37.96]I used to think that people got big writing good songs from the heart [02:45.11]Everybody's falling apart. [02:48.22]Do you know it doesn't have to be so hard? [02:52.40]It seems everybody thought it would be easy to strike gold, but you sold out. [02:59.50]You see I didn't wanna be someone else, I hit the road, [03:04.96]played some shows to become myself. [03:07.74]It seems everybody thought it'd be easy to strike gold, but you sold out.