For the past eighteen years Your life's been pretty smooth Let's take a moment and reflect On all you've had to do You've rolled out of bed And strolled to the living room And watched Cartoon Network While your mom made waffles for you Your laundry was magically clean And your dad's back pocket was an ATM machine Your life's biggest worry was what to wear to the prom And your only regret was that incident With the stink bomb Do you hear that subtle sound? That's the sound of reality about to slap the taste out your mouth Now you're on your own You should be scared But we can tell You don't care Why don't you care? You should be frightened You're young and now you're free The world is your oyster We have no clue what that means
But let us paint a picture of your future You're gonna eat a lot of Hot Pockets And you're thinkin' that sounds great Well get back to us in six months When you've had three hundred and seventy-eight As soon as you move out You know what your parents are gonna do They're gonna turn your bedroom into an exercise room That they never use And you won't use lockers in college And this might be a total bummer There are no yearbooks either You'll actually have to say 'Have a great summer' Do you feel that gentle breeze? It's the category five hurricane of adulthood About to hit you upside the head with a tree Now you're on your own Don't screw this up You're on your own Good luck You're gonna need it