Got a half pack of cigarettes, forty dollars to my name A box full of old cassettes, of all the songs I can't forget I borrowed all I could I'll take the rest I'll make up my own rules to break success Yeah, there's no better time to run away If tomorrow never comes, I'm here today Cause I was eighteen with a stupid dream You told me, don't believe but I know better I'm ready more than ever now Eighteen with too much self-esteem You told me, don't believe but I know better I'm ready more than ever now Stumbled in to hollywood, it's snowing with the cocaine No ones up to any good, so I'm a find my own way I borrowed all I could I'll take the rest I'll make up my own rules to break success Yeah, there's no better time to run away If tomorrow never comes, I'm here today Cause I was eighteen with a stupid dream You told me, don't believe but I know better I'm ready more than ever now Eighteen with too much self-esteem You told me, don't believe but I know better I'm ready more than ever now I might have nothing but I want it all Something I made, something to call my own You say I'm trippin' but I know it's real I'm gonna get it; beg, borrow, or steal I'm ready more than ever now Eighteen with a stupid dream You told me, don't believe but I know better I'm ready more than ever now Eighteen with too much self-esteem You told me, don't believe but I know better I'm ready more than ever now