Hurry up before you go and get old
Hurry up before your blood runs cold
None of us were ever meant to stay
Were all gonna find out one day

You see lifes too short to run it like a race
So its never gonna matter if you win first place
Cause were all the same

[Chorus]
Stop waitin on your fifteen minutes of fame cause youre not special
Im not tryin to rain on your parade but youre not special
Im not tryin to bring to you down Im not tryin to sound so ineffectual
But youre not special

Hurry up before the bottle kicks in
Before the poison and the pain sets in (Get up get up)
If you take it down a notch and you let me explain
That on this earth we are all the same

And all I can say is...

Stop waitin on your fifteen minutes of fame cause youre not special
Im not tryin to rain on your parade but youre not special
Im not tryin to bring to you down Im not tryin to sound so ineffectual
Cause youre not special

We all live to love we all fall apart
Wed all go to war for the faint of heart
Instead were condescending
There are no happy endings
I wont hold my breath I wont cast a doubt
Id never sell you out
But Ill give you one last chance to own it
Cause youre not a god or a poet so...

Stop waitin on your fifteen minutes of fame cause youre not special
Im not tryin to rain on your parade but youre not special
Im not tryin to bring to you down Im not tryin to sound so ineffectual
But youre not special

(Get up get up get a move on)
(Get up get up aint nothin wrong) But youre not special
(Get up get up get a move on)
(Stop stallin Im callin out) But youre not special
Cause youre not special
Cause youre not special