Stay Young

Young, stay young

Stay strong, don't get on with it

Gone, way gone

One day it’s all gone and you’re all done

All my friends are running to live on corners

The hurters and the haters and the faders and the mourners

The world goes to its work and it is not gentle

In what it breaks you down into

All my friends are looking at life

And it’s a long, long, long, long, lonely time

I said that when you met me I was just dying

I said it to no one, I said it in silence

Young, stay young

Face dawn, all talk and quick

Stunned, stay stunned, mind blown, and your jaw drops

And all these hateful people judging and hand-wringing

Oh, lord, why don’t you bury me in all they call sinning?

Open up your heart, show me the place where love is missing

How long have you been missing love?

I see all creation pulsing and divided up between it

Now you have to lay me down because my head is spinning

Try, try hard

To drop fear and to drop your guard

Off, off of love, off drugs

Just feel it in your blood

And I call to all my friends:

All the cracked-cassette-tape-thrillers

All the hand-inside-the-tillers, and the hundred-dollar-billers

Standing by the stone that was rejected by the builders

There was drinking at the bar

They carried from the burning building

Never let it be said that he wasn’t willing

Well no shit, I know you miss him, girl

And out past the edges off the earth, you're make it wider

When I see you're crying, don’t you know it’s killing me?

Now climb, climb up

Way up to see the sun

One, one draw

One life, one love

'Cause you’ve only got one

Young, stay young

Don't get tough, don't get on with it

On, stay on

It’s heartbreaking, step with it

Stay young