I think, before I speak; I turn the other cheek more than I used to.
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I'm surprised I'm alive after all of the crazy things that I do.
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I've still got that wild streak you love but I'm not the man I was.
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But I think I like me better now than when I was twenty-one.
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Back then, I ran with a reckless abandon in a Pontiac.
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An' I'd smile with a misguided pride when they'd call me a maniac. (Huh.)
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And I couldn't get gone fast enough: God knows I was the prodigal son.
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I took a match to every bridge back then when I was twenty-one.
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Whoa, whoa, age does change us,
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And it's a good thing that it does.
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It pays the wages: man,
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I can't believe how far I've come from when I was twenty-one.
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Instrumental break.
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(Whoa, whoa, yeah.)
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To those broken hearts I left without regard: I didn't know the consequences. (Huh.)
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I apologise an', with a little time now, I've come to my senses.
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And now I see the power and the promise in commitment to your love.
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That's something I could never have done when I was twenty-one.
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Whoa, whoa, age does change us,
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And it's a good thing that it does.
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It pays the wages: man,
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I can't believe how far I've come from when I was twenty-one.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, when I was twenty-one.
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Whoa, when I was twenty-one.
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Mmm, hmm.
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Twenty One
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| Phil Vassar |
