We Ain't That Young Anymore

from Life in the Rearview Mirror by Craig Manning

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And we all just want to stay young forever
Hold on to that feeling
Of how we watched the sun go down in the summertime
And thought the world was ours
But youth is just a house on fire
You either get out or die trying
There's no fire department coming down the road
You gotta do it on your own
And there ain't no map, no X-marks-the-spot
No treasure waiting at the end of the rainbow
You ain't Peter Pan, this ain't Neverland
Move on

We ain't that young anymore
We ain't that young anymore

And we all just want to stay cool forever
Hip to the latest trends
Stay out with your friends until the last call
And you're shutting down the bar
You used to live your life like a college kid
Burning your candle at both ends
You were wild and free you were bold and brash
You were the king of the world and the bar
But they stopped carding you a long time ago
You're not the kid with a beer in his hand
You're a grown ass man, it's time to take a stand
Move on

We ain't that young anymore
We ain't that young anymore

And we all just want to stay gold forever
Be the heroes in the songs we love
Be a Ziggy Stardust or a Magic Rat
We can beat them, just for one day
But the songs were about somebody else before
And they'll be somebody else's again
Because people age and your life's gonna change
But characters are always staying the same
You can't live in a book you don't live in a song
You can't be timeless if you never grow
So just let "Born to Run" fade into "She's the One"
Move on

We ain't that young anymore
We ain't that young anymore

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from Life in the Rearview Mirror, released August 11, 2017

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