The Answer

When a fire starts in the hull
 How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
 When a fire starts in the hull
 How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
 Minutes?
 Hours?
 What time is it anyway?
 How do you tell your family
 That you just wanna quit school and play with your band?
 When a fire starts burning
 How much time do you have before it burns itself out?
 And why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I doing here?
 Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I looking for?
 Maybe school, or maybe love
 Or maybe none of the above is the answer
 Maybe for once I'll really try
 Or fuck it all, and just get high
 'Cause that's an answer
 Feels like an answer
 And who do I wanna be?
 Question 23:
 What's the furthest distance a ship can
 Be from shore before it looses its signal?
 What's the furthest distance a ship can
 Be from shore before it looses its signal?
 And why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I doing here?
 Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I looking for?
 Maybe school, or maybe love
 Or maybe none of the above is the answer
 Maybe for once I'll really try
 Or fuck it all, and just get high
 'Cause that's an answer
 Maybe I'll practice my guitar
 Or read a book, or steal a car
 And steal the answer
 I'll get a job and get paid
 Or get a girlfriend and get laid
 And get the answer
 I'll join the army, go to war
 Give up my smokes, or smoke some more
 I need an answer!
 Move to the village in my head
 Wind up happy, wind up dead
 Wind up in debt, wind up in love
 Or maybe none of the above
 Is the answer
 Maybe it's okay that I don't have a plan and I don't have a clue
 I'm 19 and that doesn't mean that I
 Should know exactly what I wanna do
 Right?
 I'm 19 and that doesn't mean that I should know what I wanna do
 I've got time to make mistakes, make up my mind
 I've got time enough to find out all the answers
 But I am scared and I'm afraid
 That a decision won't get made
 And I'll be like this forever
 I mean, help
 Need extra help
 To find the answers, what's the answer?
 I don't know.
 I don't know
 I don't know
 I don't know
 I don't know
 I don't know
 I don't know
 I don't know
 I don't, I don't know!
 When a fire starts in the hull
 How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
 Pencils down,
 Papers turned over
 Time's up.