More songs by Owen Riegling
Description
Composer Lyricist, Vocalist: Owen Riegling
Recording Engineer, Producer, Background Vocalist: Oscar Charles
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Jordan Rigby
Mastering Engineer: Chris Henderson
Composer Lyricist: Connie Harrington
Lyrics and translation
Original
I always thought that it was cool that you knew the words to quotes in movies.
Everyone at school, you'd make 'em laugh.
You'd hang out with your brother's friends and tell us all about the weekend, how many beers you had.
I had no clue who the hell I was, forehead on the window riding home on the bus.
I closed my eyes 'cause what I wished that I could see in that foggy reflection was anything but quiet, anything but different, anything but just a kid from some nowhere little town.
You were going places, you had your together.
I was just a lost soul wishing I was found.
I wanted to be like you, God knows that I tried to.
Hell, some days I would have died to.
Yeah, I'd have given anything to be anything but me.
While you were out at the party raising hell and getting high,
I was always somewhere lost in my guitar.
I'd crank it up to ten and play the same three chords again, never thinking it would get me very far.
Top of my lungs, banging on the strings.
Damn, I tried so hard to be anything but quiet, anything but different, anything but just a kid from some nowhere little town.
You were going places, you had your together. I was just a lost soul wishing
I was found. I wanted to be like you, God knows that I tried to.
Hell, some days I walked right out of high school.
Yeah, I'd have given anything to be anything but me.
Anything but me.
Always chasing something that I never had, but you were always there.
You always had my back. Guess that's what friends are for.
Took years for me to see that I was always fighting, but you never wanted me to be anything but quiet, anything but different, anything but just a kid from some nowhere little town.
You said I was going places, I had my together.
Thought I was going nowhere, but look where I am now.
I wanted to be like you, God knows that I tried to.
Do you know what you did for me? 'Cause I do.
And these days I can't imagine trying to be anything but me.
Anything but me.
Yeah.
Anything but me.
Yeah.
Anything but me.
Yeah.
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