[VERSE 1]
Now I'm too young to die, not old enough to vote
Next year you're gonna choke from the cigarette smoke
Got a diploma, cap and gown
Gonna do your best not to make your dad frown
The next four years is of downin' beers,
Taking off braziers, doing d** with peers
But it appears that you're here for an internship
So you can get a “good job” and a house to split
Now you're twenty five, feeling alive
‘jive at a dive after your nine to five'
You got a girlfriend, she may have moved in
She said, “f** the kitchen, I'm a career woman”
Then one night after gla**es of wine
You pa**ed the band, you asked the line
You've turned thirty two, hate what you do
Your marriage ain't stale, but it sure ain't new
[CHORUS]
Goodbye
Seventeen to thirty five
Goodbye
Heavenly dreams of youth tonight
[VERSE 2]
I used to think I needed
Some type of life like that
Let my neighbors hear me with a Gatsby type of laugh
I could take the cake and slice the pie in half
And no one would ever question why
Except for dear old I
The only trouble is with that life
It's overly-prescribed, very trite
It's the morphine or the knife before you die
[CHORUS]
Goodbye
Seventeen to thirty five
Goodbye
Heavenly dreams of youth tonight