Edwin McCain Go Be Young song lyrics

The 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'd let my dreams slip away from me

That's where it went wrong"

Go be young, go be free

And follow your heart where it leads you

And don't end up like me

Don't end up like me

The Indian in the guardhouse

Used to spin me yarns

The stories of canyons and Boston in winter

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

Go be young, go be free

And follow your heart where it leads you

And don't end up like me

Don't end up like me

And don't end up like me

Don't end up like me

Go be young, go be free

Follow your heart where it leads you

Don't end up like me

And don't end up like me

Don't end up like me