Our Time Down Here Lyrics - Alive Like Me

You're growing up too fast they said 

But I don't want to live my life like them 

And I just want to think about tonight 

Because the past is my ghost 

Let's meet up in a shady part of town 

Where they don't want to see us lose 

Our crowns because we're kings to them 

Well I don't think we're kings of anything 

(No I don't think we're kings of anything) 

Sneak out to the rooftop scene 

Surrounded by such evil things 

I won't admit this but I hate it here 

And what they don't know 

Is that the place they told me I should never go 

Was the place I learned to love the most 

What they don't know 

Is just something they forgot when they grew old 

You have to fall before you grow 

So I'll say thanks for the advice 

The choice is mine to make tonight 

I'd rather do this on my own than fall right into place 

And we will never be alive 

If we don't learn to live our lives 

I'll run in circles till I die 

Rather than have to retrace your lines 

I am so sorry if you think I didn't need you 

But my heart has never lost a place for you 

I just got tired of the way you stopped my movement 

All I ever truly wanted was to live 

And what they don't know 

Is that the place they told me I should never go 

Was the place I learned to love the most 

And what they don't know 

Is just something they forgot when they grew old 

(You have to fall) 

You have to fall before you grow 

(before you grow) [x3] 

And after all you have to fall before you grow