We were seventeen and invincible
Had the world figured out and a girl on my shoulder
Told me, "Everything's gonna be alright"
And everything was gonna be alright
Yeah, maybe we were in high school
But you never see the ending when you're young and love pretending
Singing, "Everything's gonna be alright"
Everything was gonna be alright
Now she's got a boyfriend
Cause nothing really ever goes the way it's planned
And I'm on some back road
Driving to the city and then, who knows?
Cause that's all, she wrote
Wish that I could turn this car around
But she's got a boyfriend now
And I took a trip out to LA
For the girl with a smile that could take your breath away
I'm thinking, everything's gonna be alright
And everything was gonna be alright
Maybe I thought I could sneak in
And sweep her off her feet and go right back to Boston
Thinking everything's goin' be alright
And everything was gonna be alright
These streets keep holding on
But now she's so far gone
Now she's got a boyfriend
Cause nothing really ever goes the way it's planned
Yeah, she's on the West Coast
And I'm on some back road
Driving to the city and then, who knows?
Cause that's all, she wrote
Wish that I could turn this car around
But she's got a boyfriend now
Take me back to you somehow
With everything that I know now it's so hard
Take me back to feeling like the world
Would just keep dealing me the right cards
And I'm twenty-three and invincible
Got the world figured out and a bird on my shoulder
Told me, "Everything's gonna be alright"
And when is everything gonna be alright?
And now she's got a boyfriend
Cause nothing really ever goes the way it's planned
And I'm on some back road
Driving to the city and then, who knows?
Cause that's all, she wrote
I wish that I could turn this car around
I wish that I could press rewind somehow
But she's got a boyfriend now
(She's got a boyfriend now)
(She's got a boyfriend now)
Breath, breath, breath, breath, away
Breath, breath, breath away