Survive Lyrics - John Mellencamp

Go on and admit it 

You can't take it anymore 

So why don't you quit it 

Your scratching off again 

Can't you see it 

Well the whole thing was such a surprise 

I know you and your hear crazy notions 

Your pretty girls and no devotions 

Down by the ocean middle class 

Down by the gulf side, you let it all slide 

But now your saying that you don't 

Wanna be a sixteen year old girl, aah 

But you don't want to turn twenty-five 

You never ever, you never ever lied, 

Where you been, aahh 

You got to survive to keep yourself alive, 

Yeah-ah, yeah 

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It ain't no big deal if your attitude is wrong 

And you don't know how you feel 

You just cop someone else's ideas 

And masturbate yourself, make them your own 

Well I, I don't mean to tell you what to do 

Cause I've scratched off myself a time or two 

Well it just leaves you blue, with nothing to do 

And they think I'm crazy when I stay up all weekend 

But now your saying that you don't 

Wanna be a sixteen year old girl, oh yeah, aah 

But you don't want to turn twenty-five 

You never ever, you never ever lied 

Where you been, aahh 

You got to survive to keep yourself alive 

Yeah-ah, my na na no, yeah 

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So if I'm walking down the street and you see me 

Don't walk on by, say hey man 

You know your looking, your looking so fine 

You don't have to mean it, no no 

Its just one of the regular lies that we've lived with 

And this is a love song and 

I'm writing it just to survive