Wasted Youth

There's an image
 Running through my head at night
 Imposing on every thought and keeping me from sleep
 It's an image
 Of myself at seventeen
 Screaming "your sincerity
 Masked everything we once believed"
 Can I retrace my steps back to that place?
 I knew the truth
 Well, I knew the truth, yeah
 I won't replace my heart for warmer days
 I know the truth
 And you know it too
 While winter takes its toll
 In hotels and hospitals
 I'm still waiting here
 For something to believe
 While useless wars are waged
 And loyalty's misplaced
 I'm still waiting here
 For something to believe
 Locked between the vast vacant past and hollow future
 This is the present tense
 For failed accomplishments
 It's a generation
 (It's a generation)
 How did we get here?
 How did we ever get so lost?
 Can I retrace my steps back to that place?
 I knew the truth
 Well, I knew the truth, yeah
 I won't replace my heart for warmer days
 I know the truth
 And you know it too
 While winter takes its toll
 In hotels and hospitals
 I'm still waiting here
 For something to believe
 While useless wars are waged
 And loyalty's misplaced
 I'm still waiting here
 For something to believe in
 Go,
 Run for your life
 Cause in the end
 Gonna catch up someday
 Get you someday
 While winter takes its toll
 In hotels and hospitals
 I'm still waiting here
 For something to believe
 While useless wars are waged
 And loyalty's misplaced
 I'm still waiting here
 For something to believe in
 I'm not waiting anymore.