Tell your mom you need a day off

so we can play out in the rain

we'll catch a ride to the mall

go down to the arcarde

cause that's where all the cool kids play



tell your mom you need a day off

cause I dont feel like school today

we'll ride our boards down the hill

and to the playground

where everythings ok



tell your mom we will be home late

cause building cabins in the woods is hard work



you always know that I'll be there

Cause I'm the type, and you'll be near

my closest friend, we'll always be

You are a hometown kid like me



Tell your mom to make us lunch now

cause we worked up an appetite

G.I. Joes and karate matches in the back yard

where everything's alright



now I can see that things have changed

we've gone our seperate ways now



and it's not you and me

anymore, whoa...



why can't it be the way it was

when they were us...

my closest friends have turned and fled

you are a million miles away



and I guess I'll hold my breath

(there is no harm for hoping for change)

and I guess I'll hold my breath

(there is no harm in hoping for change)

and I guess I'll hold my Breath

(there is no harm in hoping for change)

And I guess I'll hold my breath...