Rawk! This reminds me of an old Green Day song but with a singer on a real downer, an almost resigned acceptance rather than angst. But it works so damn well this way. That is to say, I like the guitars, the harder edge to this song. I like the vocals. My only real nit is that when the music drops out the volume of the vocal seems a lot louder than with the music or maybe not as smooth a transition as I’d like. A few notes here and there are louder than others in the vocal, maybe the beginning of the second verse? I think the whoa oh’s could be layered or spread a bit better. When you add the extra vocals on them at the end, I like them a lot more. Still, this is one of the better entries of the challenge, I think.
Lyric: I like the lyric and I like your angle. It’s the most original so far.

This is solid pop punk, with some more power pop sounds at times that i like more than the pop punk core. The start of the chorus gives me some Cheap Trick vibes. The way the band drops out going into the chorus sounds a little awkward. The chorus gets maybe a little too deep into the genre, starts to lose me. I know it's appropriate for the pop punk style to have the sort of disaffected delivery for the vocals but I wish there had been some time where you sounded more emotive.