Paul Is Alive

I had a sugar-coated childhood
 The stars were in my soup
 But given the opportunity
 I'd start over and change it all
 Beatlemania made my mother
 Think the way she does
 She always said, don't waste you life
 Wishing everything was how it was
 Paul is alive
 I was in a moment for a moment
 Then I wasn't
 I was a sixteen years old in a dead guy's boots
 With my hair slicked to the side
 Sitting outside the jockey club
 Crying in my 7-Up
 I could hear Hüsker Dü and The Smiths
 The Sluggos, The Cramps go bup, bup, bup inside
 Paul is alive
 Nobody stays above
 Out in the waves of love
 Nobody stays above
 Out in the waves of love
 Inside the jockey club
 I'm even
 I've never been this far up the river
 And I don't want to go
 Nobody makes you beg to be different
 And there's fosters on the floor
 If I go, will I find
 There's a waiting line?
 Maybe I should take my time
 'Cause I never heard of anybody coming back
 Nobody stays above
 Out in the waves of love
 Nobody stays above
 Out in the waves of love
 Inside the jockey club
 I'm even with Heaven
 I've never been this far up the river
 And I don't want to go
 Nobody makes you beg to be different
 And there's fosters on the floor