Intro: B-E-B-E

  B     E           B
   The time has come
          E         B
   We're breaking in
        E              B
   The real world waits
       E           B
   To shed our skin
            E            B
   And our teenage crimes
           E         B
   We'll leave behind
          E           B
   Mistakes we've made
         E  
   We won't go

   G#m        F#
   Back for tomorrow 
         E         F#
   When we've got today
         G#m            F#
   We're packing up our sorrow
      E         F#
   Tomorrow can wait
         G#m                   F#
   Say hurray, hurray! For the past we cling to
      E                   F#
   Today, today! We've got more to sing to
            G#m                    F#
   I'm the kid your parents told you not to become
          E                 F#
   But life's too short to live it in fear of

                    Chorus
   B                E
   If it's for us, who can be against us?
  G#m          F#
   We are the hope and the future
        E                    F#
   The promised ones with everything to prove
        B                 E
   And with this plan written in our hands
  G#m          F#
   We are the hope and the future
         E                 F#
   The promised ones with nothing else to lose

   Interlude: B-E-

  B                       E
   This is as good as it gets
                              B
   Your time is of the essence
                          E                  B
   Day by day, but you're not getting younger
                                 E
   You're on both sides of your fate
                              B
   But dear, we'll find an escape
                         E
   Living fast, dying younger, you're not
   G#m          F#      E          F#
   Not getting younger, but it's okay
      G#m              F#
   So hold back your tears, darling
   E            F#
   All that can wait

   (Repeat Chorus)

   Interlude: B--

                     Bridge
  E      G#m                         F#
   The promised ones, we don't know what to do
  E      G#m                         F#
   The promised ones, we don't know what to do
  E
   Set your mind and your heart to anything that you do
         G#m                         F#
   The promised ones, we don't know what to do
   (take my hand, this is yours, and you've got nothing to lose)
  E
   Set your mind and your heart to anything that you do
         G#m                         F#
   The promised ones, we don't know what to do
   (take my hand, this is yours, and you've got nothing to lose)

  E
   Young and we're reckless
                  G#m
   Bored and we're selfish
              F#
   Sick and tired of
  E               
   Young and we're reckless
                  G#m 
   Bored and we're selfish
              F#
   Sick and tired of

   (Repeat Chorus)