Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Stay Positive' - I gotta lotta old friends that are gettin' back in touch / And it's a pretty good feelin, yeah it feels pretty good / I get a lotta double-takes when I'm comin' around the corners / And it's mostly pretty nice, yeah it's mostly pretty alright / 'Cause most kids give me credit for being down with it / When it was back in the day, back when things were way different / When the Youth of Today and the early 7 Seconds / Taught me some of life's most valuable lessons / There's gonna come a time when the scene'll seem less sunny / It'll probably get druggy and the kids'll seem too skinny / There's gonna come a time when she's gonna have to go / With whoever's gonna get her the highest / There's gonna come a time when the true scene leaders / Forget where they differ and get big picture / 'Cause the kids at the shows, they'll have kids of their own / The sing-along songs will be our scriptures / We gotta stay positive / (Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) / We gotta stay positive / We gotta stay positive / (Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) / We gotta stay positive / When the chaperone crowned us the king and the queen / I knew that we'd arrived at a unified scene / And all those little lambs from my dreams / Well, they were there too / 'Cause it's one thing to start it with a positive jam / And it's another thing to see it all through / And we couldn't have even done this if it wasn't for you / We gotta stay positive / (Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) / We gotta stay positive / We gotta stay positive / (Whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh-oh-oh) / We gotta stay positive