Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

D A x 3

Verse

It's the sad eyed goodbbye yesterday's moments I'll remember

  It's the bleak street weak kneed partings I recall

  It's the mistier mist, the hazier days

  The brighter sun, and the easy oles

  There's all the more reason for laughing and crying

  When youre younger and life isnt too hard at all.

x 2

[w/verse prog.]

It's the fantastic drowse of the afternoon Sundays that bored you to rages

of tears

The unending pleadings to waste all your good times on thoughs of your

middle aged years

It's the vertical hold of the things that youre told

For the everyday hero, it all turns to zero

And theres all the more reason for living or dying

When youre young and your troubles are all very small

x 2

Break

Out here on the streets we'd gather and meet

  And scuff up the sidewalks with endlessly restless feet

  Half of the time we'd broaden our minds more in the pool halls

  Than we did in the school halls.

  With the downtown chewing gum bums

  Watching the nightlife, the lights and the fun.

x 2

[w/verse prog]

I never wanted to be the boy next door, always thought Id be something more

It aint easy for a smalltown boy, it aint easy at all

Thinking it right, doing it wrong, it's easier from an armchair

Waves of alternatives wash over my sleepiness

Have my eggs paoched for breakfast I guess.

I think I'll be Clint Eastwood

Jimi Hendrix, he was good

Let's try William the Conqueror

Now who else do I like?