It don’t mean nothing (if it don’t last):
Johnny's got a really nice car
He doesn't really care if his friends can't afford the ride
He's that kind of guy
He's not good looking; he's hot
The girls don't really mind his face when he got that bod
And it's alright

Johnny's got a really nice gal
She says "Johnny boy, I want to be the center of your world"
Now that would be swell
He's always got her on his arm
But when she's not around he's feeling up the other girls
Oh could it get worse?

Everybody thought he had the life
On the happy side of the paradigm
But one day the fates didn't all align
'Cause Johnny was a very bad boy

When they found out, all his women left
And when he reached out but he couldn't find a friend
And Johnny boy still couldn't understand
That it don't mean nothin' if it don't last

Johnny ran away to Prague
If he's taking second chances, he's gonna take them far away
A sacrifice play
He's popping pills and singing his songs
The TV in the bar watches him waste away
Waste away

A lady sees him sitting alone
She walks up and says hey boy I wanna play along
What could go wrong?
She takes him back to her room
She wants to take it off and maybe even get it on
But Johnny feels wrong

He wakes in the morning feeling like a mess
The lady's gone but he's got emptiness
Then the thought passes through this head
It don't mean nothin' if it don't last

Nothing, nothing
Nothing, nothing

Now an old man he waters his plants
One of these days he'll breathe his last
He smiles anyway and he thanks his past
'Cause it might have meant something, though it didn't last

His neighbour cheats on her man, a test
That haunted Johnny boy, never let him rest
When they're done and she's on his bed she says
It don't mean nothin' 'cause it won't last