When I was young Pain more painful Laughter much louder Yeah, when I was young The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then And times were very hard I smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls, I had a bad yen

Take me back to the days when I was young Let's look back, back to the moment when I followed sin with every step and every breath I wanted what I couldn't have, it was never enough Forgotten innocence, just a shadow of who I was meant to become. Is this

I was younger than you are now When I was given my first command I led my men straight into a massacre I witnessed their deaths firsthand I made every mistake And felt the shame rise in me And even now I lie awake Knowing history has its eyes on me (whoa)

Too much too young, young Soulless is everywhere Link it to yourself Is growing like the new born When you've seen, seen Destroy the spineless Show me it's real Wasting our last chance To come away

Mm, too young, too dumb to realize That I should have bought you flowers And held your hand Should have gave you all my hours When I had the chance Take you to every party 'cause all you wanted to do was dance Now my baby's dancing But she's dancing with

You better slow down When I was a young boy Well they tried to tell me That I was movin' Movin' way too fast And I knew everything About everything But I really didn't wanna listen To a bunch of old folks talkin' trash

Nothing really matters Love is all we need All comes back to me Everything I give you I was the only one When I was very young Nothing really mattered to me But making myself happy Now that I am grown

Back in the day when I was young Those were the days Wish that I could go back I wanna take you back To the very moment when you take a snap Back in the day to little me Reminiscing all, all the memories that Make me happy and they make me sad All the

In a permanent state When I was a young boy I tried to listen All this noise, I'm waking up All this space I'm taking up Maybe you'll get what you wanted Maybe you'll stumble upon it Everything you ever wanted Maybe you'll know when you see it

Please help me mend my broken heart And let me live again How can you mend a broken heart? How can a loser ever win? La la la la la la, la la la la I can think of younger days When living for my life Was everything a man could want to do I could never