Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Jessie was the prom queen back in 1995
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Punk and super pretty like a goddess on the outside
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She was sweet and funny, popular and cool
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It's got to be a drag when you peak in high school
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She left college and she never went back
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She posed for Playboy, made her think that she could act
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Ten years looking for the luck
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Chased her dreams in Cali but her laughing kinda sucked
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Now she's pushing thirty five, working at Starbucks
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Oh well, nowhere to go but up
[Verse 2]
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Bill and Bobby Ann, Tiffany and Mike
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They seemed to be the kids that did everything right
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Now the boys are doing time for robbing a Korean store
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The girls grow pot and do internet porn
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Bobby's little brother Brett always talked smack
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He learned that you can go too far and never get back
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He was drinking at the wrong place
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at the wrong time
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He said the wrong thing
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to the wrong guy
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He got himself stabbed in his one good eye
[Chorus]
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Life goes south when pretty goes away
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The best that you can get is when you're
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falling in a good way
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Good enough is never enough
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Good enough is never enough
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There was nowhere to go but up
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There was nowhere to go but up
Em
There was nowhere to go
[Verse 3]
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Jimmy found god, Timmy lost a leg
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Amy married well to a man she hates
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Jamie bought a strip club makes a lot of dough
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Alex sold drugs now he has his own reality show
[Chorus]
D A
Life goes south when pretty goes away
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The best that you can get is when you're
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falling in a good way
D A
Life goes south when pretty goes away
D
The best that you can get is when you're
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falling in a good way
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Good enough is never enough
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Good enough is never enough
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Good enough is never enough
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There was nowhere to go but up