nostalgia

i'm the red balloon at the carnival, that you let go of to see how, high you got when you took your first hit, felt so good when it hit your lips, didn't it didn't it?, yeah, i'm the night you borrowed your daddy's car, so you could look cool when you picked her, up all night with a desk light studying science, dying inside 'cause you hated that shit, didn't ya, didn't ya?, oh, throw your hands way up in the air if you feel me, oh and when the party's over, you still talk about me, you can find me, in your hometown, burning up the radio, you know me, got the scars, posters and polaroid photos, lift you up, and i pull you down, long gone but i'm still around, yeah i know all about ya, they call me nostalgia, nostalgia na na na nostalgia, i'm that little apartment up in new york, you could barely afford you were so, broke his heart when you went off to college, hurt so bad being that honest, didn't it, didn't it?, i was your birthday night when he burned the chicken, lookin' back now and it was your, favorite song on the trl countdown, all day sugar ray singing it out, "i just wanna fly.", oh, throw your hands way up in the air if you feel me, oh and when the party's over, you still talk about me, you can find me, in your hometown, burning up the radio, you know me, got the scars, posters and polaroid photos, lift you up, and i pull you down, long gone but i'm still around, yeah i know all about ya, they call me nostalgia, nostalgia na na na nostalgia, nostalgia na na na nostalgia, oh, throw your hands way up in the air if you feel me, oh and when the party's over, you still talk about me