Young and free, something you'll never be 

A childhood's end, it's lunacy 

Pure dictation, they don't listen 

And you're just waiting for what you're missing 



Welcome to your nightmare 

You just can't walk away 

It's time for you, to choose, your fate 

You just can't let it lay 

Welcome to your nightmare 

Your whole life's on the way 

Today 



You're no good, misunderstood, A.I.R. 

All their hopes and visions of what they want you to be 

Crucial times, made up minds, A.I.R. 

So high and mighty, though much too blind too see 



Who are you gonna live your life for? 

Conformity will trap you like a locked door 

Independence means owning your decision's 

Authority will put your soul in prison 



Welcome to your nightmare 

You just can't walk away 

It's time for you, to choose, your fate 

You just can't let it lay 

Welcome to your nightmare 

Your whole life's on the way 

Today 



You're no good, misunderstood, A.I.R. 

All their hopes and visions of what they want you to be 

Crucial times, made up minds, A.I.R. 

So high and mighty, though much too blind too see 



Fight, go insane, there's no one else to blame 

Stop, their influence, you can't give them a chance 

Break, right through the wall, that separates us all 

Start, your second life, without their hands in sight 



You got your pride you got your visions 

Don't subside, don't ever give in 

Don't compromise just keep on grinning 

The games they play you just keep on winning 

Keep on winning 

Keep on winning 

Keep on winning 

A.I.R. 



I try to imagine the best place I¹ve been 

Can I go back again ? 

Open my eyes, what was no longer exists, 

I can¹t go back again 

I like to pretend that nothing has changed 

And never went too far 

But it started to lose me like a four-hour movie 

I¹d already seen 

Holding onto my memory of what this used to be 

Holding onto my memory of you 



Sometimes I tell myself that things are O.K. 

Another lie but it makes me feel better 

Never as old as I was today 

I¹m gonna breakdown 



In American Pompeii 

In American Pompeii 

Break myself just to live this way 

Never as old, as I was today 

American Pompeii 



Look in my eyes and see how sick I feel 

About what you¹ve become 

Filthy and twisted like you never existed 

I know what you were 

Your beaty forgotten under mountains of schism 

I don¹t want to climb 

Giving up my memory of what this used to be 

Giving up my memory of you 



Sometimes I tell myself that things are O.K. 

Another lie but it makes me feel better 

Never as old as I was today 

I¹m gonna breakdown 



In American Pompeii 

In American Pompeii 

Break myself just to live this way 

Never as old, as I was today 

American Pompeii 



Try to imagine the best place I¹ve been 

Can I go back again 

Open my eyes it just no longer exists 

I can¹t go back again 

I¹m giving up my memory of what this used to be 

Giving up my memory of you