Summer time and the wind is blowing
 Outside in lower Chelsea
 And I don't know
 What I'm doing in the city
 The sun is always in my eyes
 It crashes through the windows
 And I'm sleeping on the couch
 When I came to visit you
 That's when I knew
 That I could never have you
 I knew that before you did
 Still I'm the one who's stupid

 AND THERE'S THIS BURNING
 LIKE THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN
 I'VE NEVER BEEN SO ALONE
 AND I'VE NEVER BEEN SO ALIVE

 Visions of you on a motorcycle drive by
 The cigarette ash flies in your eyes
 And you don't mind
 You smile
 And say the world it doesn't fit with you
 I don't believe you
 You're so serene
 Careening through the universe
 Your axis on a tilt
 You're guiltless and free
 I hope you take a piece of me with you

 And there's things I would like to do
 That you don't believe in
 I would like to build something
 But you'll never see it happen
And there's burnin'

Like it's always been,
I've never been so alone,
And i, I've never been so alive!

 Where's the soul?
 I wanna know
 New York City's evil
 The surface is everything
 But I could never do that
 Someone would see through that
 And this is the last time
 We'll be friends again
 And I'll get over you
 You'll wonder who I am

 I go home to the coast
 It starts to rain
 I paddle out on the water
 Alone
 Taste the salt
 And taste the pain
 I'm not thinking of you again
 Summer dies and swells rise
 The sun goes down in my eyes
 See this rolling wave
 [bad word] 
 To take me home
 And I've never been so alone
 And I've never been so alive

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 Written by Stephan Jenkins
 Originally performed by Third Eye Blind