| Six years ago a very hot summer night | |
| Avenue A with my friends hanging tight | |
| No future, no goals and no destiny | |
| Hanging on the corner for the world to see | |
| Some friends drunk and some friends high | |
| Laughing talking shit as the people walked by | |
| The air was tense and muggy as fuck | |
| Lower east side running a muck | |
| Guilty by association, judged by who | |
| I knowCan't keep all my friends out of trouble | |
| When they got no place to go | |
| Guilty by association, judged by who | |
| I knowCan't keep all my friends out of trouble | |
| When they got no place to go | |
| Me drug free | |
| In the midst of it all | |
| Crazy fucking summer | |
| Hanging out with mad ball | |
| People got their ass kicked, people got hurt | |
| But I was accepted for all it was worth | |
| Bad reputations are hard to live down | |
| I'm not guilty for who | |
| I hang around | |
| Guilty by association, judged by who | |
| I knowCan't keep all my friends out of trouble | |
| When they got no place to go | |
| Guilty by association, judged by who | |
| I knowCan't keep all my friends out of trouble | |
| When they got no place to go | |
| Sometimes | |
| I felt like an outcast | |
| Trying to talk my friends out of trouble | |
| Tried to be a positive role model | |
| But I got caught up in the rumble | |
| We had ideas scribbled on walls | |
| Six years later our destiny calls | |
| Living our lives some of us in bands | |
| Touring the world but we know where we stand | |
| We play shows together | |
| Or just hanging out | |
| Talking 'bout the good times | |
| How we got out | |
| Still the same fellas and we're still all tight | |
| Young till we die and ready to fight for what's right | |
| As I look back now on that summer vacation | |
| I realize | |
| I'll always be guilty by association | |
| Guilty by association, judged by who | |
| I knowCan't keep all my friends out of trouble | |
| When they got no place to go | |
| Guilty by association, judged by who | |
| I knowCan't keep all my friends out of trouble | |
| When they got no place to go | |
| As I look back now on that summer vacation | |
| I realize | |
| I'll always be guilty by association |