I'll never take part in the grown population
Or waste my time with further education
To get what we know, is just a big show
Where they want to control
So chained and frustrated
It's all so complicated
Fashion, no passion surrounds me

All I know is I've heard this all before
Reality's a bore (is a bore)
You ask me to believe it (never believe)
Something they provide
Can't bring myself to, do what
You want me to (want me to)
This is who we are and (who we are)
nothing's gonna change, nothing's gonna change

I can't take part in the business revolution
Or take my chance in the real world confusion
Don't blame us, who do we trust when they're so dis-a-honest
No patience, this nation's obsessed with exploitation
Lying, denying surrounds me

All I know is I've heard this all before
Reality's a bore (is a bore)
You ask me to believe it (never believe)
Something they provide
Can't bring myself to, do what
You want me to (want me to)
This is who we are and (who we are)
Nothing's gonna change

(what!) Don't think you can ignore us (ignore us)
Don't tell me your word is right (word is right)
Don't pick a future for us (for us)
We lack 'cause we're involved!!

All I know is I've heard this all before
Reality's a bore (is a bore)
You ask me to believe it (never believe)
Something they provide
Can't bring myself to, do what
You want me to (want me to)
This is who we are and (who we are)
Nothing's gonna change

Thanks for nothing (I've heard this all before),
Thanks for nothing (reality's a bore),
Thanks for nothing (it'll never be the same),
Thanks for nothing (and nothing's gonna change)



Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28

Track duration: 03:04

"Thanks for Nothing" as written by Deryck Jason Whibley, Stephen Martin Jocz, Greig Andrew Nori

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP

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    General Comment:i think its how our country is so controlled by the government which forces our parents to make us follow stupid rules and how reality is a bore
    Flag sum41fanaticon May 30, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Fashion No Passion Surround Me!
    Flag uroverratedon April 28, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I noticed the verses sound a bit like Fat Lip
    the choruses sound like I'm Not the One
    and the bridge sounds like Subject to Change

    anyone else realize this?
    Flag pastachickennugget42on May 09, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think the guy is the victim of drug abuse.

    His eyes are locked on her,
    [he is fixated with her from across the room]
    Her eyes are fixed elsewhere,
    [she hasn't even noticed him]
    He's confident, but he's not aware,
    [he's high (confident) but out of his face (not aware)]
    She doesn't care.
    [again, she's not noticed him]
    Their only connection, is the silence that they both grasp,
    [setting a club scene music so loud you hear nothing else]
    he's lost control, but she's not aware, of his stare.
    [building tension on previous statements, he's high, she's oblivious]
    Everything seems to intimidate him,
    [the loss of control under the influence]
    with the strobe lights flashing, her body's jolting,
    [she's dancing and the strobe and drugs is making her movements seem to jolt]
    But cracking, as his eyes, spilt in two, if only she knew...
    [he's having a bad reaction to the drugs]
    The curtain goes down on him again
    [I can imagine him staggering about]
    Everything seems to be closing in on her,
    [moving towards her]
    It feels just like she is being hunted,
    [his approach]
    But its all right, it's all good,
    [he's falling about getting nowhere fast]
    She's not aware, of his stare.
    [she still doesn't see this fella staggering about]
    We've had this date from the beginning
    [the “date” is two things his hit and him picking her out]
    The curtain goes down on him again
    [the guy passes out/OD's]
    Who remains when the curtain falls?
    [did she notice him then?]
    Who remains when the curtain goes down...?
    [does he die?]
    Flag kitsilanoon March 04, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I really like this song.. Im not a liberal person but come feelings that I cant show are in the songs of sum 41, and Im an intelectual girl but when you hear to this kind of music all the bad feellings go.. sorry for my english im latin
    Flag romeosavemeon March 04, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:The vocals at the beginning parts is the drummer Steve Jocz
    Flag alexamerlingon October 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i love this song because i know i didn`t turn out the way i whas suposed to so to me this song is about us who whent against the flow and stood up and whas glad to be differenet
    Flag david311freakon June 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:hey gofuckyourself, Go fuck yourself. Not everything is about degrees and straight A's. Sometimes it's about doin what you actually enjoy and NOT following everybody else.
    Flag Mitch-Oscopeon April 15, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Yeah...college isn't important or anything. I mean, parents shouldn't force their kids down the same path. But not going to college... It's like saying "I'm just going to go out in the world and be a pseudo-intellectual." This is a pretty bad song. People respect you more if you have degrees, you're also smarter, and can do something for the world, instead of just bitching.
    Flag gofuckyourselfon March 03, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:My version says further edcation, not proper.

    Love this song though, especially the beginning.
    Flag The1exileon July 26, 2006   Link

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