intro} 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 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 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 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. (reapeat and fade) I think I'll be Clint Eastwood Jimi Hendrix, he was good Let's try William the Conqueror Now who else do I like? ------------ E -----5-----4-----2-----3-----0-----4-----0-----0-----4-----3-----2-----2----- B -----7-----5-----3-----0-----2-----6-----2-----0-----4-----5-----2-----2----- G -----7-----4-----2-----0-----0-----6-----2-----1-----5-----5-----3-----2----- D -----7-----6-----4-----0-----2-----6-----2-----2-----6-----5-----4-----0----- A -----5-----4-----2-----2-----0-----4-----0-----2-----6-----3-----4-----0----- E -----x-----x-----x-----3-----x-----x-----x-----0-----4-----x-----2-----x-----