When You're Young Lyrics

Have you begun to daydream for a place, a better time

Where we wake up as the kids who saw this world without the pain

And none of this ever happened

Shake it off as just a dream

Brush your teeth, your friends are skating down the street

But now I'm older

And who I was when I was young is just a shadow, an episode

No one ever tells you when you're young

The world will pass you by

Chew you up, spit you out into a lie

And ten years later, you look in the mirror

And who you see is not the kid with crooked teeth

It's just a person who barely sleeps to make ends meet

So quick to reach for drinking when you're up and down the curve

Of the never ending existential rainfall

Then one day you awaken, feeling empty as a hole

In your heart you know it's time you've dug your way out

But I regress

Time and time again I swim against the current

It takes me down under a wave

I'm out my mind or in a phase

Another year I feel the same

Can I find another way

To be the child I turned away to become so numb

When you're grown, the world becomes a knife

Pin you down, slice you thin and out of spite

And with no filter, you reduce to a stranger of who you were

You're not a kid down on the creek

You're just a human who makes mistakes and lives with grief