When I Was Young

The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then, the times were very hard When I was young When I was young I smoked my first cigarette at ten And for boys I had a bad yen, I had quite a ball 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 I met my first love at thirteen He was brown and I was pretty green, I learned quite a lot 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 My faith was so much stronger then I believed in fellow men, and I was so much older then When I was young When I was young When I was young ...