Eight years old, hammerin' my old go kart

With a two-by-four and dream in my folks' backyard

The steerin' wheel was a rope, when it broke, I lost

Life put a knife in my dream when the wheels came off

That was then, this is now

World keeps spinnin', 'round and 'round

You're either up or you're upside down

Every road has led me back around

Tears will fall and scars will fade

You learn to live with the mess you've made

A broken road still gets ya home somehow

That was then, this is now

Firin' off pistons, all pistons in a little red dress

A chrome-plated heart teaches somethin' that you never forget

She'll take you to the finish line but you're never gonna cross

Crashed in a dead-end street when the wheels came off

That was then, this is now

World keeps spinnin', 'round and 'round

You're either up or you're upside down

Every road has led me back around

Tears will fall and scars will fade

You learn to live with the mess you've made

A broken road still gets ya home somehow

That was then, this is now

That was then, this is now

Sometimes at night, my mind plays tricks on me

Tells me that this dream just don't work out

Haunted by ghosts that I can see (See, see)

That was then, this is now

World keeps spinnin', 'round and 'round

You're either up or you're upside down

Every road has led me back around

Tears will fall and scars will fade

You learn to live with the mess you've made

A broken road still gets ya home somehow

That was then, this is now

That was then, this is now