Twenty One

Phil Vassar

I think before I speak

I turn the other cheek more than I used to

I'm surprised I'm alive after

All of the crazy things that I do

I've still got that wild streak you love

But I'm not the man I was

But I think I like me better now

Than when I was twenty-one

Back then

I ran with a reckless abandon in a Pontiac

An' I'd smile with a misguided pride

When they'd call me a maniac (Huh )

And I couldn't get gone fast enough

God knows I was the prodigal son

I took a match to every bridge back

Then when I was twenty-one

Whoa whoa age does change us

And it's a good thing that it does

It pays the wages: man

I can't believe how far I've come

From when I was twenty-one

Whoa whoa yeah

To those broken hearts I left without regard

I didn't know the consequences (Huh )

I apologise an' with a little time now

I've come to my senses

And now I see the power

And the promise in commitment to your love

That's something I could never have done

When I was twenty-one

Whoa whoa age does change us

And it's a good thing that it does

It pays the wages: man

I can't believe how far I've come

From when I was twenty-one

Whoa whoa whoa when I was twenty-one

Whoa when I was twenty-one

Mmm hmm