Edwin McCain Lyrics

Album: Messenger

Go Be Young Lyrics

Perfumed and smoky

 She swears that she knows me 

 She's falling down drunk again 

 I say she's mistaken 

 She's visibly shaken 

 Emotions all drowned in gin 

 She said I used to be beautiful 

 But now it's all gone 

 I let my dreams slip away from me 

 That's where it went wrong 

 Go be young, go be free 

 Follow your heart where it leads you 

 Don't end up like me 

 The Indian in the guardhouse used to spin me yarns 

 Stories of canyons and Boston in winter 

 And losing his family's farms 

 He said I've outlived my three sons, they died in three wars 

 I laughed and I cried while they lived and they died 

 And I know that they deserve more 

 

 [Chorus:]

 Perfumed and smoky

 I'm falling down drunk again 

 I say she's mistaken 

 She's visibly shaken 

 Emotions all drowned in gin 

 I say I used to be powerful 

 But now it's all gone 

 I let my dreams take control of me 

 That's where it went wrong

 

 [Chorus]