1993 Video (MV)

Math was full of figures
Adding adolescent pain
Ah-hah
Ah-hah
You were a quiet misfit
Me, I was the same
Ah-hah
Ah-hah
We took to killing time
In the least productive way
To young to go to work
To old to sit around and play
We bonded on the boredom
Of that gray suburban day
Till the Sun rose on confessions in the park

But someone had an issue
With cigarettes and booze
You were too young to stop it
I was too young to choose
I lost my better judgment
She poured out all the clues
We never got to get back what we lost

Next day there was an absence
In every single class
Ah-hah
Ah-hah
That could have been the reason
That someone didn't pass
Ah-hah
Ah-hah
You must've been a mess
All anger, loss and fear
Sitting all alone with hundreds
And choking on your tears
I could have been your friend
I just want to make it clear
That I'll never know the anguish in your heart
You could have been my brother
Before we ever met
We never grew up right
But I guarantee a bet
That we were about as close
As teenage boys will ever get
In that crazy piece of past we didn't start

Now you're way up North
Facing almost 14 years
I went through that myself
And I wish that you were here
We could talk about before
The cigarettes and beer
When we almost had a friendship that would last

(Yeah)
(I miss you brother)
(Look up)

(Can we be before forever's all my conscience wants to say
I just need you to forgive me, can I put this pain away?)
(Can we be before forever's all my conscience wants to say
I just need you to forgive me, can I put this pain away?)
(Can we be before forever's all my conscience wants to say
I just need you to forgive me, can I put this pain away?)
(Can we be before forever's all my conscience wants to say
I just need you to forgive me, can I put this pain away?)