The Answer - George Salazar, Joe Iconis

When a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to

the deck?

When a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to

the deck?

Minutes?

Hours?

What time is it anyway?

How do you tell your family that you wanna quit school and just play with your

band?

When a fire starts burning, how much time do you have before it burns itself

out?

And why do I feel like I’m choking lately?

What am I doing here?

Why do I feel like I’m choking lately?

What am I looking for?

Maybe school, or maybe love, or maybe none of the above is the answer

Maybe for once I’ll really try, or fuck it all and just get high 'cause that’s

an answer

Feels like an answer

And who do I wanna be?

Question 23

What’s the furthest distance a ship can be from shore before it loses its

signal?

What’s the furthest distance a ship can be from shore before it loses its

signal?

And why do I feel like I’m choking lately?

What am I doing here?

Why do I feel like I’m choking lately?

What am I looking for?

Maybe school, or maybe love, or maybe none of the above is the answer

Maybe for once I’ll really try, or fuck it all and just get high 'cause that’s

an answer

Maybe I’ll practice my guitar, or read a book, or steal a car and steal the

answer

I’ll get a job and get paid or get a girlfriend and get laid and get the answer

I’ll join the army, go to war, give up my smoke to smoke some more

I need an answer

Move to the village, shave my head, wind up happy, wind up dead

Wind up in debt, wind up in love, or maybe none of the above is the answer

Maybe it’s ok that I don’t have a plan and I don’t have a clue

I’m 19 and that doesn’t mean that I should know exactly what I want to do,

right?

I’m 19 and that doesn’t mean that I should know what I want to do

I’ve got time to make mistakes, make up my mind

I’ve got time enough to find out all the answers

But I am scared and I’m afraid that a decision won’t get made and I’ll be like

this forever

I need help, need extra help to find the answers, what’s the answer?

I don’t know

I don’t know

I don’t know

I don’t know

I don’t know

I don’t know

I don’t know

I don’t know

I don’t—I don’t know

When a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to

the deck?

Pencils down, papers turned over

Time’s up