From the Album: * Lovesweat The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then And times were very hard When I was young I smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls I had a bad yen And I had quite a ball, when I was young refrain: When I was young it was more important They'd more fun and they laughed much louder yeah, when I was young I met my first love at thirteen She was brown and I was pretty green And I learned quite a lot When I was young My faith was so much stronger then I believed in fellow man and I was so much older then When I was young
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