[Verse 1]
Cracked decks on a dead-end road
Hand-me-down Vans
Laces blown
Upstate sky
Pale and wide
We learned to fall
Then learned to glide
Taped-up wrist
Fresh road rash
Borrowed board
Borrowed cash
Parking lot kings after class
Chasing sparks in the broken glass (hey!)
[Pre-Chorus]
AV room glow
Blue on our faces
Skipping through songs like we’re switching our phases
[Chorus]
We were upstate anthems
Loud in the halls
AV doors shaking off the cinderblock walls
J-pop hooks and a feedback scream
Idol hearts in a duct-tape scene
Growing up sideways
Fast and free
Punk rock kids on a busted TV
If you were there then you still know
We burned our names in the Hudson snow
[Verse 2]
Taconic Hills
Buzzed haircuts
Sharpie notes on our paper cups
Someone’s mix
All sweet and strange
Bubblegum words over guitar chains
Late bus home
Cracked headphones
Static night on the payphone
“Party at Bash?” “Yeah
I’m in”
Farmhouse lights
Cheap plastic grin (oh yeah)
[Pre-Chorus]
Basement air thick
All heart
No patience
Spinning like tapes in a cheap deck station
[Chorus]
We were upstate anthems
Loud in the halls
AV doors shaking off the cinderblock walls
J-pop hooks and a feedback scream
Idol hearts in a duct-tape scene
Growing up sideways
Fast and free
Punk rock kids on a busted TV
If you were there then you still know
We burned our names in the Hudson snow
[Bridge]
Catamount nights
Frozen breath
Board hits ice
Flirting with death
Lift line jokes
Nerves run thin
“Last run down
Then we’re diving back in”
[Chorus]
We were upstate anthems
Loud in the halls
AV doors shaking off the cinderblock walls
J-pop hooks and a feedback scream
Idol hearts in a duct-tape scene
Growing up sideways
Fast and free
Punk rock kids on a busted TV
If you were there then you still know
We burned our names in the Hudson snow
Yeah
If you were there then you still know
We’re still that shout in the Hudson snow