Comin' home used to feel so good
I'm a stranger now in my neighborhood
I've seen the world at a faster pace
And I'm comin' now from a diff'rent place

Though I may look the same way to you
Underneath there is somebody new

I am not the boy next door
I don't belong like I did before
Nothin' ever seems like it used to be
You can have your dreams, but you can't have me

Oh, I can't come back there anymore
'Cause I am not the boy next door

You've been savin' those souvenirs
Faded photographs from our foolish years
We made plans, but they're wearin' thin
And they don't work out 'cause I don't fit in

And those memories will just weigh me down
'Cause I got no place to keep 'em uptown

I am not the boy next door
I don't belong like I did before
Nothin' ever seems like it used to be
You can have your dreams, but you can't have me

Oh, I can't go back there anymore
'Cause I am not the boy next door

I'm not sorry for just bein' me
But if you'd look past the past, you could see
That I am not
(You are not)
(The boy next door)
(You don't belong)

Nothin' ever seems like it used to be
You can have your dreams, oh, but you can't have me

I can't go back there anymore
'Cause I am not (you are not)
I am not (you are not)
I am not the boy next door