growing up takes a lifetime

I’m double the age I was when I was seventeen

Sometimes I still feel caught in a teenie dream

Not the one with butterflies

Lip gloss rosy kiss goodbyes

No, I mean the anxious kind

I’ve got all I need somehow it’s not enough

One look in the mirror and I call the bluff

And my hair is just as long

As when I wrote my first song

And played it for a girl I liked

I guess, growing up takes a lifetime

The years stack up ahead

As they are left behind

I keep my guard up for the long ride

Is there anyone

Who’s gonna ride along

With me

Every now and then I think I’ve got it straight

I can read the markers and I’m on my way

Like a recurring melody

The world comes crashing over me

Drowning out the guiding light

I guess, growing up takes a lifetime

The years stack up ahead

As they are left behind

I keep my guard up for the long ride

Is there anyone

Who’s gonna ride along

With me

Thinking about the time when I turn seventy

I’m worried for the world and for humanity

Everyone still on their phone

My kids with kids of their own

And what’s haunting them at night

I guess, growing up takes a lifetime

The years stack up ahead

As they are left behind

I keep my guard up for the long ride

Is there anyone

Who’s gonna ride along

With me