Twenty One

Phil Vassar
I think, before I speak
I turn the other cheek more than I used to.
I'm surprised I'm alive after
all of the crazy things that I do.
I've still got that wild streak you love
but I'm not the man I was.
But I think I like me better now
than when I was twenty-one.
Back then
I ran with a reckless abandon in a Pontiac.
An' I'd smile with a misguided pride
when they'd call me a maniac. （Huh.）
And I couldn't get gone fast enough

God knows I was the prodigal son.
I took a match to every bridge back

then when I was twenty-one.
Whoa, whoa, age does change us,
And it's a good thing that it does.
It pays the wages: man,
I can't believe how far I've come
from when I was twenty-one.
Whoa, whoa, yeah
To those broken hearts I left without regard
I didn't know the consequences. （Huh.）
I apologise an', with a little time now
I've come to my senses.
And now I see the power
and the promise in commitment to your love.
That's something I could never have done
when I was twenty-one.
Whoa, whoa, age does change us,
And it's a good thing that it does.
It pays the wages: man,
I can't believe how far I've come
from when I was twenty-one.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, when I was twenty-one.
Whoa, when I was twenty-one.

Mmm, hmm.