I picked a good day for a recreational percocet I've got an itch to just get high I'm in the middle of the worst of it These are the best years of my life I've got the hankering for intellectual emptiness I've got the need to ease my mind I'll watch some re-runs on the TV set These are the best years of my life I was looking forward to Staying here forever 'Cause you asked me to Didn't think that I could do better So I settled down In this ten-cent town It's about to break me I'm gonna mix a drink and try to drown this worthlessness Call Mom and tell her I'm alright Well he don't love me but he ain't gone yet These are the best years of my life Yeah I was looking forward to Staying here forever 'Cause you asked me to Didn't think that I could do better So I settled down In this ten-cent town It's about to break me I picked a good day for a recreational percocet I've got an itch to just get high I'm in the middle of the worst of it These are the best years of my life These are the best years of my life These are the best years of my life

I wish you love and happiness I guess I wish you all the best I wish you don't do like I do And ever fall in love with someone like you 'Cause if you do like I did You'd probably run around the block like a little kid But kids don't know, they can only guess How hard it is to wish you happiness I guess love is like a Christmas card You decorate a tree you throw it in the yard And it decays and dies and the snowmen melt Well, I knew love, I knew how love felt Yeah, I knew love, love knew me And when I walked, love walked with me And I got no hate and I got no pride And I got so much love that I just can't hide Well, I got so much love that I just can't hide Say you drive a Chevy, say you drive a Ford Say you drive around the town till you just get bored And then you change your mind for something else to do Then your heart gets bored with your mind and it changes you Well, it's a doggone shame and it's an awful mess I wish you love, I wish you happiness I wish you love, I wish you happiness I guess I wish you all the best

First year that I gotta pay my taxes When I heard the number, thought 'bout killing myself Tried to buy wine, but they didn't have it Mom and dad, know I miss you like hell Politics, and all of this is kinda dumb But I find it kinda funny as well I'm too busy to be anything else I'm too busy to be anything else And if it, only happens once, then it shouldn't happen at all All I do is try my best, and all I do is try my best So if I don't feel alive, am I really living at all? All I do is try my best, and all I do is try my best All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is It's all about, over-indulgence in moderation So I can show I'm not inebriated As I get older I realize Too much of anything, makes you hate it Watch your words, they might make you famous I can't stand the complacence So I do everything myself I'm too busy to be anything else And if it, only happens once, then it shouldn't happen at all All I do is try my best, and all I do is try my best So if I don't feel alive, am really living at all? All I do is try my best, and all I do is try my best All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is (All i do is, is try my best) All I do, is all I do is try my best, is try my best, is (All i do is, is try my best) (Is try my best) (Is try my best, is) (Cause all I do, is) (Is try my best, is) All I do is, all I do is Try my best, is try my best, is

Oh, I can still remember when I bought my first guitar Remember walking from the shop to put it proudly in my car And my family listened fifty times to my two song repertoire I told my Mom her only son was gonna be a star. Well I bought all the Beatles records, sounded just like hall Or Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry's, seventy-eight in all And I sat by my record player playing every note they played I watched them all on TV, copied every move they made. Oh, Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life All the teeny sunny Sundays, all the moonless summer nights I was so busy in the bed room, writing love songs to you But you were changing your direction and I never even knew That I was always just one step behind you. Well, sixty-six seemed like the year I was really goin' somewhere I was living in San Francisco wearing flowers in my hair Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand The guys and me thought wer were more than just another band. Oh, Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life All the crazy, lazy young days, all the magic moony nights I was so busy on the road, singing love songs to you But you were changing your direction and you never even knew That I was always just one step behind you. Seventy-one I was all alone when I met Sarah-Jane I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band When she came up to me softly and she took me by the hand She listened to my problems and she seemed to understand. And she followed me to London to a hundred hotel rooms To a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes And she followed me back to Tennessee where she findly made me see I'm just a plain old Country boy and that's all I'll ever be. Oh, Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life All the teeny sunny Sundays, all the moonless summer nights Oh, I never knew the magic I'm making it with you I'm getting along with a Country song doing what I wanna do When I was always just one step behind you.

Saturday night, time to go out again, Basking myself doubt again. Sounds like fun, stumble around Search for more games to play, think off a whole week away It's what we do. Take a picture witness from a far Loosing the sense of who we are, As we find the sense of who we're going to be. All at once, it's changed All at once, it's real Need to take control Learning just to deal, Draw away our minds 'Til that day arrives, this is how we'll spend Best years of our lives. Part of the crowd, I remember who's hearts you wear I can't help it, I stop and stare You caught my eye talking to you. I guess it's now time to be trickin' when you loving me Maybe for a night. Words still fall so far they'll fall so fast Got to just make this moment last And let die for one more day, All at once, it's changed All at once, it's real Need to take control Learning just to deal, Draw away our minds 'Til that day arrives, this is how we'll spend The Best years of our lives. All these strange new highs Give to old time lows Problems take control, Before anybody knows Luckily for me dreams are hard to break But lets to be learnd Between the give and take a picture witness From a far Loosing the sense of who we are, As we find the sense of who we're going to be. All at once, it's changed All at once, it's real Need to take control Learning just to deal, Draw away our minds 'Til that day arrives, this is how we'll spend The Best years of our lives. The Best years of our lives. The Best years of our lives.

I've gotten a habit of falling asleep To the sound of your voice Old videos play in the dark Set my dreams up to start with the noise (Then) I'm back there fishing in the sun Sat up high on your shoulders feel I've won now Those were the years Getaways to Catalina bay What I'd give to go back to that age Then you'd still be here Life goes on And we all must change But all I want is to be young again Growing up means changing into someone that you don't know (Or I don't know) These days, I'm not that little kid that we both used to know Packed my bags, I left home And I got me a job that I like Making music I feel like you'd love One day, wish I could share all the things I am All the things that I had to be to stand them All of these years Here without you, making my own way What I'd to go back to that age, oh Life goes on And we all must change But all I want is to be young again Growing up means changing into someone that you don't know (Or I don't know)