Going on Eighteen — текст песни (Dusty Drake)

Mama preached to me, boy be a kid just as long as you can
But I was hell-bent and bound and determined to be my old man
I was ready to drive and I wanted a job
Hungry to chase my dreams
Way back when I was twelve years old going on eighteen

Those four years of college I stretched into six and a half
If I woke up in time after parties you`d catch me in class
I moved back home, stayed out, slept in
`Til one Monday morning I heard Daddy scream
You`re twenty-four years old boy, going on eighteen

CHORUS: Hey all I`m dying to do is to live
Just tryin` to take what the day has to give
Everyone wants but they don`t always get what`s expected of me
They say act your age, don`t break no mold
Be young when you`re young and old when you`re old
They say I`m in the prime of my life, hell if I know what that means
In the back of my mind I`m still going on eighteen

Got the wife, got the kids, got the job, got the cars and the house
In life`s little rulebook it falls under "all settled down"
But give a handful of friends a handful drinks
It`s like riding a time machine
Abunch of thirytsomething-year-old guys going on eighteen

REPEAT CHORUS

Now I preach to my boy be a kid just as long as you can
But he`s hell-bent and determined
To be his old man