Too Young to Die

[Verse 1]

Remember running with a homemade transistor into the nowhere of the night

And picking up transmissions in a code from a host of foreign satellites

It said, "Teach a kid guitar, he'll be broke for the rest of his life

[Chorus]

But too young to die"

First heard that from an old guy

I'm too young to die

Spray-painted on the half-pipe

Too young to die

[Verse 2]

Sailing, sometimes failing, that's the only way, the only way to fly

Crying, sometimes wailing, that's the only way that we learn how to try

With my face down in the mat, the champ says, "Are you too old to fight?

[Chorus]

Or too young to die?"

First heard that from an old guy

I'm too young to die

Cacti blooming up the hillside

Too young to die

[Verse 3]

So if you're feeling like King Kong at the end of his do-or-die

And hearing voices of a girl against the engines of a kamikaze flight

As he held her to his chest, do you remember the words that she cried?

[Chorus]

She said, "You're too young to die

And too young to die am I"

Too young to die

And too young to die am I

Too young to die