When I Was Young

The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then And times were very hard When I was young When I was young Smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls, I had a bad aim Oh, I meant so very much When I was young When I was young When I was young, it was more important Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah When I was young When I was young Don't you know, I met my first love at thirteen? She was brown, and I was pretty green I learned so very much When I was young When I was young Love, my love, my love Love, my love Love, my love Yeah, yeah When I was young, it was more important Pain more painful, laughter much louder, yeah When I was young When I was a baby My faith was so much stronger then I believed in my fellow men I was really so much older then When I was young When I was young When I was a baby, baby, baby, love When I [Incomprehensible], yeah Just got to [Incomprehensible] with no shoes [Incomprehensible], oh love When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was a baby, baby, baby, oh love When I was young When I was young When I was young, yeah