teenage nightmare

I thought I'd die at 17, so why am I afraid

To accept I'm not perfectly my dreams from seventh grade?

I'm making up some fantasies to stop the bills I pay

'Cause once I've moved on mentally, I've slept my youth away

Tell me what's wrong with the world, 'cause I've been turned so cynical

Someone call Mom, life just hurts, and I need some medical

Can somebody please hear me when I say the pretty lies?

That nothing ever matters and someday we're gonna die

So I guess I'll be your teenage nightmare, oh-oh, oh

Your teenage nightmare, oh-oh, oh

Hey little boy, you wasted all your life

Tryna be the best in class, and now you're out of time

Gotta drink away the feelin' that these golden years have been

A fucked up lie

Wanna run away and live the life I've missed

I've been searchin' for the feelin' of eternal bliss

Look at this high achiever turn into a self-loathin' narcissist

It's the last prom, and I'm queen of the land of broken dreams

Give me my crown, and I'll sleep 'til the edge of 17

Society fucked all my dreams and made me grow up small

Don't ever think I'll move on from these broken high school halls

So I guess I'll be your teenage nightmare, oh-oh, oh

Your teenage nightmare, oh-oh, oh

Hey, I burn everything that I touch

And I still don't know how to self-love

And I think I'm insane, but ain't that the fuckin' world?

Hey, and by the time I grow old

We'll be fucked and ready to blow

So might as well go insane and blow our brains while we can

Teenage dreams are make-believe when nothing's real at all

Virginity and sanity, I lost them in the fall

So I guess I'll be your teenage nightmare, oh-oh, oh

Your teenage nightmare, oh-oh, oh

Mm, mm, mm, mm

Mm-mm, mm