I was twenty-one, I was thirty-three
I was just a child when I was seventeen
I got old [repeat 3 times]In every year it is a different number
In every meal it's more like my father
I got old [repeat 3 times]And now I'm comfortable within this world
And it's all I know
I'm not ready to goMiles around you
You feel like my mother beneath the shoulder of my father
Yeah they were young once,
Yeah in their own right
They were like us.I had a friend just like a child
Let him stay young, young and wild.
Never got old, never got old
He died so youngLet the days move slow as everyone I know grows old
Let through them grow.
I will come back old
And the year which I hold in me
Which I hold in me [Repeat 3 times]Now there's nothing to do in this town
There's nothing to do in this town anymore
And no one is left around
There nothing to do in this town anymoreOh lord, I got old
I got old [repeat 6 times]When I was young
Man, I was younger
You should have seen me
I was on fire