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  • Days when

  • We'd fight, we'd fight 'til I would give in

  • Yeah, perfect disasters

  • We were reaching, reaching for the rafters

  • And on most of the days we were searching for ways

  • To get up and get out of the town that we were raised, yeah, Cause we were done

  • I remember, we were sleeping in cars

  • We were searching for OZ

  • We were burning cigars

  • With white plastics tips 'til we saw the sun

  • And we said crazy things like

  • I refuse to look back thinking days were better

  • Just because they're younger days

  • I don't know what's 'round the corner

  • Way I feel right now I swear we'll never change

  • Back when we were kids

  • Swore we would never die

  • You and me were kids

  • Swear that we'll never die

  • Lights down

  • And we drive and we're drivin' just to get out

  • Yeah, perfect disasters

  • Yeah we were swinging, swinging from the rafters

  • Hey, we were dancing in cars

  • We were looking for ours

  • We were naming the stars

  • After people we knew 'til we had to go

  • And we were saying things like

  • I refuse to look back thinking days were better

  • Just because they're younger days

  • I don't know what's 'round the corner

  • Way I feel right now I swear we'll never change

  • Back when we were kids

  • Swore we would never die

  • You and me were kids

  • Swear that we'll never die

  • Nights when we kept dancing

  • Changing all our plans and

  • Making every day a holiday

  • Feel the years start burning

  • City lights they're turning

  • Something 'bout this feels the same

  • Back when we were kids

  • Swore we would never die

  • You and me were kids

  • Swear that we'll never die

  • I refuse to look back thinking days were better

  • Just because they're younger days

  • I don't know what's 'round the corner

  • Way I feel right now I swear we'll never change

  • You and me were kids

Days when

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    Bruce Chen posted on 2018/02/24
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Keywords

reach

US /ritʃ/

UK /ri:tʃ/

  • verb
  • To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
  • To be long enough to get to a certain place
  • To extend a hand or arm to touch or take something
  • noun
  • Power or control someone has over something
swear

US /swɛr/

UK /sweə(r)/

  • verb
  • To say bad or impolite words to someone
  • To make a serious promise to do something
raise

US /rez/

UK /reɪz/

  • other
  • To put forward for consideration or discussion.
  • To increase the amount of a bet.
  • To bring up (a child).
  • To construct or erect.
  • To cause something to happen or exist.
  • To collect or obtain money, resources, or support.
  • To grow or cultivate plants or animals for food or other products.
  • To cause to appear; evoke.
  • To increase the amount, level, or strength of something.
  • To lift or move something to a higher position.
  • To bring together; assemble.
  • To bring up a question or topic for discussion or consideration.
  • To bring up a child; to care for a young person or animal until it is fully grown.
  • noun
  • An increase in salary or wages.
  • Increase in a bet above another when playing cards
  • Pay increase
  • An increase in salary or wages.
  • verb
  • To increase a bet above another when playing cards
  • To gather donations for a cause or charity
  • To bring up and educate a child to maturity
  • To bring a dead person to life
  • To increase a quantity, size, intensity or price
  • To lift (e.g. your hand) to a higher position
  • To mention a topic /issue for discussion; bring up
  • To increase (salary, etc.)
  • To grow or care for plants or animals
  • other
  • To increase in volume or size, especially dough with yeast.
refuse

US /ˈrefjus/

UK /rɪ'fju:z/

  • verb
  • To not accept, allow, or give something
  • noun
  • Garbage, waste
drive

US /draɪv/

UK /draɪv/

  • noun
  • A person's ambition and motivation to do something
  • Action of moving cattle from one place to another
  • A part of a computer which stores the data
  • A trip by car
  • Power to move or operate an engine, car, etc.
  • Action of hitting a golf ball
  • Hard area where cars are parked leading to a house
  • verb
  • To move cattle from one place to another
  • To control a vehicle so that it moves somewhere
  • To force to go somewhere, or do or be something
  • To give power to move or operate an engine, etc.
  • To hit a golf ball
  • To push or hit an object into something else
perfect

US /ˈpɚfɪkt/

UK /'pɜ:fɪkt/

  • adjective
  • Complete; utter.
  • Having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.
  • (of a tense) denoting a completed action or an action prior to a specified time.
  • So good it cannot be improved
  • Exactly suitable; ideal.
  • verb
  • To do something so well, it cannot be done better
  • other
  • Bring (something) to the required or desirable state.
turn

US /tɚn/

UK /tɜ:n/

  • verb
  • To become (a particular age)
  • To become a different quality, color, etc.
  • To change the direction of something, e.g. a car
  • To move in an opposite direction or position
  • To shape metal with a spinning tool
  • noun
  • Place where changing of direction happens
  • Your time or chance to perform a duty
  • Your chance to play or do in say a game
  • Unexpected change, as in the weather
change

US /tʃendʒ/

UK /tʃeɪndʒ/

  • noun
  • Exchange of one set of clothes for another
  • Money in the form of coins instead of paper
  • Money returned after giving too much
  • Act of making or becoming something else
  • verb
  • To exchange one set of clothes for another
  • To exchange one kind of money for another
  • To replace something with another thing
  • To make or become something else
  • To go from one train, bus, etc. and go to another
make

US /mek/

UK /meɪk/

  • verb
  • To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
  • To get to (a place) on time
  • To gain the status of (teacher, lawyer, etc.)
  • To create something by putting things together
  • To create or construct something.
  • To earn a certain amount of money at a job
  • To cause or force a person to do something
  • To force someone to do something.
  • To cause something to happen or be formed
  • noun
  • Product made by a particular company; brand
corner

US /ˈkɔrnɚ/

UK /'kɔ:nə(r)/

  • verb
  • To force into a position impossible to escape from
  • To go around a bend in the road (often by driving)
  • noun
  • Place where two lines, sides, corners etc. meet
  • Edges of something, e.g. eyes, boxing ring