How It's Going to Be

How It's Going to Be - Gerard Way

Across the city steam and light

Off a runway to the manufactured night

In storybooks you'll never find

In paper armor that you'd mind

They'll hold the match to you this time

And watch the smoke rings fit the crime

In moments you cannot reprise

Like a soldier or a watch that you can't wind

We fought the world with hands twice-tied

The people cheered the captain cried

I'll keep the souvenir inside

It's just better in my mind

And I wouldn't lie

I never really wanted more

Than what I ever really needed after all

Someone that hates to see me go

You made a promise then you hide

And you said we'd all be dead by twenty-five

It's not your disappointed sigh

It's not you traded this for pride

Not that we really even mind

We're just bored you're still alive

And I wouldn't lie

If I tried take me down

And if I die here now

Wishing wells and magic spells and everything

Between

Can you tell me what it's like

Or how it's going to be