Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Why Is Youth Always Wasted on the Young, artist - Jim Lea. Date of issue: 22.09.2016
Song language: English
Why Is Youth Always Wasted on the Young |
| Why is youth always wasted on the young? |
| Why does youth soon arrive and then it’s gone? |
| Why is youth always wasted on the young? |
| From the outside looking in |
| See my youth, see where I’ve been |
| I have wisdom, I’m a sage |
| In this body that has aged |
| In the beauty that is youth |
| There’s a conflict, what’s it do? |
| Way back then I couldn’t know |
| That my youth was alone |
| I was different, I was bold |
| I got blasted, I got stoned |
| And I thought it was a joke |
| That I was born out of my folks |
| Why is youth always wasted on the young? |
| (I was wasted, I was young) |
| Why does youth soon arrive and then it’s gone? |
| Why is youth always wasted on the young? |
| When I was nearly twenty-one |
| And my youth had almost gone |
| Why did the best years of my life |
| Lead to anger, fear and strife? |
| Way back then I might have said |
| Leave me alone, leave me in bed |
| Go and boil your stupid head |
| I wanna screw myself to death |
| While I was busy getting high |
| Glorious years were flying by |
| And any wisdom that I faked |
| Caused mistake upon mistake |
| Why is youth always wasted on the young? |
| (I was wasted, I was young) |
| Why does youth very strange and then it’s gone? |
| Why is youth always wasted, fruit barely tasted |
| Why is youth always wasted on the young? |
| I dreamed that the world was there for me |
| But the world did not agree |
| Yeah, those years, all the anger, pain and tears |
| Couldn’t hold me or control me in those days |
| Yeah, those days |
| I was violent, I was proud |
| Had to stand out in the crowd |
| I was right and I would fight |
| That reality that bites |
| When tonight, and then I grew |
| The body beautiful and new |
| I’ll never die, that is for you |
| So change the attar guns of youth |
| Why is youth always wasted on the young? |
| (I was wasted, I was young) |
| Why does youth soon arrive and then it’s gone? |
| (very strange and then it’s gone) |
| Why is youth always wasted, fruit barely tasted? |
| I was young, I was wasted in my youth |
| As the teenager ventures the ages |
| Like the incredible hulk in one of his rages |
| The kid that’s confused and barely grown |
| Has blasted off into the great unknown |
| Now in the miracle that is life |
| We may grow older, wiser, bolder |
| But God says that it’s a miracle too far |
| To put an old head on younger shoulders |
| So I guess we’ll have to get older |