Don't need your permission
Like I'm stuck in affliction, duh!
'Cause they don't know how
How I'm cheating the system
Look, I've heard it all before
Don't shrug your shoulders
Through your chores
But we never listen, yeah, I'm cheatin' the system

I want my first kiss on a summer evening
In his secondhand car with a learner's permit
He'll drive me home before my curfew's finished
And the radio's broken, but the silence feels like

Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah-dap, bah, bah, bah, bah-ah-ah, it feels like
Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah-dap, bah, bah-dah, bah-ah-ah

Late on a school night, thinking a good time
I can't get out my head when he told me I looked nice
Wish I could stay up all night texting; can't have phones past 9 p.m.
And it's late on a school night
Oh, and I'm feelin' all right, yeah

I'm getting on the triple-two train
I don't care if no one sees us again
They think they know it all and we believe them
And the phone is frozen, but the silence feels like

Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah-dap, bah, bah, bah, bah-ah-ah, it feels like
Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah-dap, bah, bah-dah, bah-ah-ah

And if it gets cold, he'll bring me his coat
And all my friends, yeah, they'll all be jealous
We light up the sky like a billboard sign
We light up the sky, oh, yeah, yeah

I want my first kiss on a summer evening
In his secondhand car with a learner's permit
He'll drive me home before my curfew's finished
And the radio's broken, but the silence feels like