Hey Fifteen, this is Twenty-Five, checking in
to let you know how you've been
Things are cool, you got that job right out of school
all in all, it's all a win

But hey, gotta warn ya, when you get to California
you're gonna meet this girl who's like a curse
At first it's fun, but she'll cut your friends out one by one
and after that it just gets worse

Don't sweat it man, I've got your back, we've got a plan
you'll listen to me if you're smart
Stay out of Alameda, that way you'll never meet her, and
she'll find some other guy to tear apart

　Hindsight is 20-20
　that's what all the people say
　If what it takes is cleaning up this one mistake
　then it's gonna be ok

This is Thirty-Five, don't even listen to that guy
that girl is the best thing in your life
You were a jerk, but you patched it up and made it work
pretty soon she'll be your wife

But listen man, stop playing in that band
you gotta buckle down and make some dough
Put that guitar away, it's never gonna pay
and buy some Enron stock, it's gonna grow
and grow

　Hindsight is 20-20
　that's what all the people say
　If what it takes is fixing one or two mistakes
　then it's gonna be ok

For fuck's sake don't buy Enron
that's one thing I know at Forty-Five
The marriage was a joke, she cleaned me out and left me broke
now music's all that's keeping me alive

Fifty-Five has come around, I'm so glad I found
the one I should've been with from the start
But if I'd never been through all I've been through
I wouldn't be the man who won her heart

It might be nice, if I could give you some advice
but Fifteen, you don't need it anyhow
Just believe me, you're gonna wanna see
this fifteen-year-old kid I'm raising now

　Hindsight ain't 20-20
　don't care what the people say
　It's gonna take at least a hundred more mistakes
　Go ahead and do it, just gotta struggle through it
　in the end I know it's gonna be, it's gonna be ok