Lyrics

You set the curve
Every semester since first grade
How’d you break the curse
Of having that poor family’s name?
You’d come home from school
To a house full of kids
Beds where the living room had been
No dinner in sight
Have to break up a fight
Between the youngest set of twins

It’s a funny word
But they said amen all the time
At the Baptist church
But the people all seemed nice
Food was free
Water was clean
Even let you shower sometimes
Ask about your day
Hold your hand to pray
You’d forget about home for a little while

Then there’s kids like me
With every opportunity
And we piss it away
Cheap booze and video games
I just wanted to say that looking at you
I see a flower on the moon

I heard your speech
Congratulations by the way
Said you were teased
I remember like yesterday
We called you trash
Bastard of your batch
Cause we couldn’t compete in class
You wouldn’t say a thing
Though it had to sting
Now we see who’s laughing last

Cause kids like me
With every opportunity
Just wanna be first
But we don’t intend to do the work
I barely had to break a sweat
Can’t imagine what you went through
What you had to do to be a flower on the moon

Cause kids like me
With every opportunity
Just wanna be first
We don’t care who we hurt
Sitting here now I’m just proud that I once knew
One of the few flowers on the moon