Verse 1All The Boys From Way Back When Are On Vacation In The HighlandsGrown Up, With A Goatee, And A Bachelor's In FinanceArm Around A Girl I Grew Up In The Same Town WithShe's 24 And Still Ignores What Her Friends Said About HimAnd They All Recently Got Out Of Rehab Or Engaged,Either Bought A Labradoodle Or Went Totally InsaneThe Bad Guys And Tradwives And Starving ArtistsA Friend I'll Never See Again Who Passed Away In AugustChorusThe Light Beams On The Stadium SeatsWhen I See You, You're Still SeventeenJust Ghosts Inside The AfterlifeBut I've Still Got An Axe To GrindVerse 2And The Loudest In The Room Ain't The Loudest AnymoreHe's Too Close To Midnight Midlife Crisises And Is DivorcedIt's A Few Years Down The Road It's A Couple Wedding RingsTill He Realizes He Never Amounted To AnythingAnd The Loudest One Alive Will Never Really Get To LiveAnd Just Between Us I Could Always See Some Of Myself In HimWas He Ever Really Mean? Was It Bark Not Bite?Did He Hate Me Or What He Had To Hide?ChorusThe Light Beams On The Stadium SeatsWhen I See You, You're Still SeventeenJust Ghosts Inside The AfterlifeBut I've Still Got An Axe To GrindVerse 3So Got To Brooklyn, Wind Up BrokeAnd Thank Your Mom For The Check She WroteThen Act Like You're The Toughest One AroundBlackout Down At Asu And Leave With The Same AttitudeBut Act Like You Are Holier Than ThouPaint Until You're Fingers BleedFind Out What Your Spirit NeedsGet Sober, Get A Dog, And Get A GripWatch It On The Silver ScreenThe Politics And Pageant QueensA Thousand Fucking Nashville TripsOutroWe're Just Ghosts Inside The AfterlifeBut I've Still Got An Axe To Grind