~Good Charlotte~

So it's 2 am July 27,2002, and we're driving through the middle fo nowhere on our way to a s how in Chicago. I haven't showered in a week, I'm runnin on no sleep, I miss Cashdogg and some kid at teh show asked me "Why I even call myself punk." These may sound like complaints, but actually I'm reallly happy. I am listening ot our record, the young and the hopeless. Yeah, I'll admit it, I listen to our records and i am thinkgin how crazy all this is. 3 years i was stalking shleves at Target, living on ramen noodles and crashign at Billy's house, now i'm  on tour. 4 kids from nowhere. We made another record adn i feel just as excited as i did the first tiem. I say this all the tiem but I mean it, if htis all stopped yestereday i would still feel like the luckiest guy alive. I remember going into my room after school writing letters to record labels saying, " you can sign us now for cheaper" and sending out demos. I laugh abotu it now but back then I was so seriuos. You know we dreamed about this all day every day and I gotta say it feels just like we thought it would. Our goals may have changed. I'll admit, it's not about being famous or making millioins of dollars anymore. Yeah, I used to day dream about that, being broke gets old quick but now i have sorta seen how it all works and I dont want ot be the biggest band in the world, I want ot make music with Paul, Billy, and Joel. That's all. I want to tour. i want ot be good to my friends. I want to take care of my family. I want to meet kids at shows. That's real to me. I see some bands andi get frusterated for them. It's easy to get lost in the whirlwind of all of this, but I realize we all have to learn on our own . We are still learning. We have made our share of mitstakes. We have done soem cheesy stuff. But it's good to look back and see how young we were. I see a lot fo bands worrying about credibility and all of that I have realized it only comes with tiem if we are still here in ten years maybe we will be credible. Till then we jsut gotta do what we want ot do, make music. Tour. Provide for out families. You  know I used ot fist fight every guy I came across that told me I wansn't punk. Lars asked me one night, "are you gonna fight the world?" He was right, I was pretty stupid. It made me realize we are what we are adn no one can change that. I guess we have done a lot of growing up since  the lat record. We started this when we were 16. It's the only thing I ever had, it's probably the only thing I ever will have. I just feel lucky, we were four kids in a rock band from Waldorf. We're no better than any other band out there and we know it. So thanks for getting our record and being part of this. Thanks for giving us a change to do what we love. Thanks for making this real.  See ya at the show.