To Be

The eighth and title track on the album "To Be". Lyrics: To be young, to be free, To be what it is you want to be is All very well and so naive To have fun, to have hair, To be reckless here and everywhere Is all very well if you achieve What you want to be I was young for a time But my love for squash and crackers turned to cheese and wine There’s no use reminiscing on a time long gone Nothing last forever and the night goes on I was caught in my prime They say your twenties are the best you’ll ever feel in your life Then why the hell do I feel like a waste of skin? I’m not so thrilled of where I’m going or where I have been I slowly age, Well nothing lasts forever and the time will run away One day I’ll say To be young, to be free, To be what it is you want to be is All very well and so naive To have fun, to have hair, To be reckless here and everywhere Is all very well if you achieve What you want to be Look at me, 23 And I’m not even a fraction of where I should be I’m starting to believe that living is a con, But nothing lasts forever and the night goes on Should my name be in lights? With my work being devoured at the highest heights That is when I’ll think to when I wrote this song And I hope I can remember how to sing along I slowly fade, Well nothing lasts forever and the body will decay And then I’ll say To be young, to be free, To be what it is you want to be is All very well and so naive To have fun, to have hair, To be reckless here and everywhere Is all very well if you achieve What you want to be And where you want to go And who you want to live with And what you want to know And how you spend your time And when you open up You’ll have wished you’d done it sooner Everything would have been fine Instead regretting, Longing for youth can be upsetting Still you remember what it’s like To be young, to be free, To be what it is you want to be is All very well and so naive To have fun, to have hair, To be reckless here and everywhere Is all very well if you achieve (You'll be!) What you want to be