When I Was Young

Rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then And times were very hard When I was young When I was young I smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls I had a that yen And I had quite a ball When I was young When I was young it was more important Pain more painful and laughter not louder, yeah When I was young When I was young I met my first love at thirteen She was brown and I was pretty green And I learned quite a lot When I was young When I was young When I was young it was more important Pain more painful and laughter not louder, yeah When I was young When I was young My faith was so much stronger then I believed in fellow men And I was so much older then When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young

It seems the love I've known has always been The most destructive kind I guess that's why now I feel so old Before my time Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built to last on weak and shifting sand I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day And only now I see how the years ran away Yesterday when I was young So many happy songs were waiting to be sung So many wild pleasures lay in store for me And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation I can now recall Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all Yesterday the moon was blue And every crazy day brought something new to do I used my magic age as if it were a wand And never saw the waste and the emptiness beyond The game of love I played with arrogance and pride And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away And only I am left on stage to end the play There are so many songs in me that won't be sung I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue The time has come for me to pay For yesterday when I was young

Well I remember when I was Young the World had just begun and I was Happy I used to wonder about the Earth and how it moved around the Sun so Snappy Imagination goin wild makes a very backward child they told me So back at school Id sit around just waitin for the Sound so I could go Home Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now Well I remember when I was young how one and Thripence got ya to the Movies To look Tough we'd Lite a Smoke and very nearly Choke but we had a real good time Growin older Meant you get to fly a saber Jet and fight a few wars So id just sit there all day and let my mind decay somethin awful Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now Well I remember when I was Young I had a secret love who never knew it Well id do tricks upon my bike that never turned out right I allways blew it And the day we had to part I had a broken heart but couldnt let on So I spent my Holidays just thinkin of the ways I must be goin Wrong Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now SOLO Well I remember when I was young the Beatles turned me on I really blew my mind And we'd carry Jack and Pam we'd go and watch a band and have a real good time Then I heard the Blackmans blues they really blew a fuse inside my head So with some friends we made a stand and Formed our first Blues Band it was a real good thing Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now Well I remember when I was Young Well I remember when I was Young I Surely do Well I remember when I was Young Well I remember when I was Young I Surely do

I woke up today surrounded by blackness The small morning sun devoured the process It's always been fun when I get a bit nervous And it's hard to say but I feel a bit weightless The more I admit I feel a bit anxious The more I go on the less I can face this And those rotten things that live in our shadow We walk on the line of death and the gallows And hope that we clear a path we can follow It's the worst damn day (It doesn't hurt that much) Of my life I made a mess today (It doesn't hurt that much) I'm alright (It doesn't hurt that much) When I was young the world it was smaller The cities were vast the buildings were taller I felt really strong my parents seemed stronger But life has a way it showers with greatness Then takes it away those pieces that made us Then teaches you things you'd never imagine We all get the same the memories the burdens The pictures we made they still form a pattern They cautiously say "Does it all matter?" It's the worst damn day (It doesn't hurt that much) Of my life I made a mess today (It doesn't hurt that much) I'm alright (It doesn't hurt that much) It's the worst damn day (It doesn't hurt that much) Of my life I made a mess today (It doesn't hurt that much) I'm alright It's the worst damn day (It doesn't hurt that much) Of my life I made a mess today (It doesn't hurt that much) I'm alright (It doesn't hurt that much) It's the worst damn day (It doesn't hurt that much) Of my life I made a mess today (It doesn't hurt that much) I'm alright

Yeah, when I was young Used to dream about a radio That would play my songs That I might live on Well I learned that I can't buy fame And I can't buy happiness But I found some one On this crazy road I'm on I just hope you know that there's a love still growing in me Hope that maybe that's enough I hope you're happy, while I have you with me And I hope just maybe, that's enough Yeah, when I was young Used to dream about a headline show I'd sing my songs And reach someone Well I learned that I can't buy faith And I can't buy certainty But I found some one On this crazy road I'm on I just hope you know that there's a love still growing in me Hope that maybe that's enough I hope you're happy while I have you with me And I hope just maybe that's enough When I was young When I was young When I was young I hope you're happy while I have you with me And I hope just maybe that's enough (I hope, hope, hope that you're happy) I just hope you know that there's a love still growing in me Hope that maybe that's enough I hope you're happy (hope, hope, that you're happy) while I have you with me And I hope just maybe that's enough

I was young when I left home An' I been out ramblin' 'round An' I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, Lord, to my home An' I never wrote a letter to my home It was just the other day I was bringin' home my pay When I met an' old friend I used to know Said, your mother is dead an' gone Every sisters all gone wrong An' your daddy needs you home right away I have a shirt on my back Not a penny on my name But I can't go home this way This way, Lord, Lord, Lord An' I can't go home this way If you miss train, I'm on Count the days, I'm gone You'll hear that whistle blow hundred miles Hundred miles, honey baby, Lord, Lord, Lord An' you'll hear that whistle blow hundred mile I've playin' on a track, ma would come an' woop me back On 'em trusses down by Ol' Jim McKay's When I pay the debt I owe to the commissary store I will pawn my watch an' chain an' go home Go home, Lord, Lord, Lord I will pawn my watch an' chain an' go home Used to tell my ma sometimes When I see them ridin' blind Gonna make me home out in the wind In the wind, Lord, in the wind Make me home out in the wind I don't like it in the wind I wanna back home again But I can't go home this way This way, Lord, Lord, Lord An' I can't go home this way I was young when I left home An' I been out ramblin' 'round An' I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, Lord, Lord, Lord An' I never wrote a letter to my home

I was young when I left home And I've been all round and round, But I never wrote a letter to my home, To my home Lord, Lord to my home, And I never wrote a letter to my home It was just the other day, I was bringing on my pay, I met an old friend I used to know, Said, "Your mamma's dead and gone, Baby sister's all gone wrong And your daddy needs you home right away." Not a shirt on my back, Not a penny to my name, Lord I can't go home this way. If you miss the train I'm on, Count the days I'm gone, You'll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles. Hundred miles honey bean, Lord, Lord, Lord... You'll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles. And I'm

Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day And only now I see how the years ran away Yesterday when I was young So many drinking song were waiting to be sung So many wayward pleasures laid in store for me And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation I can now recall Concerned itself with me, me and nothing else at all Yesterday the moon was blue And every crazy day brought something new to do I used my magic age as if it were a wand And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond The game of love I played with arrogance and pride And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died The friends I made all seemed, somehow, to drift away And only I am left on stage to end the play There are so many songs in me that won't be sung I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue The time has come for me to pay for yesterday When I was young Young Young