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.