Dusty Drake - Going On Eighteen Lyrics
Mama preached to me, boy be a kid just as long as you canBut I was hell-bent and bound and determined to be my old manI was ready to drive and I wanted a jobHungry to chase my dreamsWay back when I was twelve years old going on eighteenThose four years of college I stretched into six and a halfIf I woke up in time after parties you'd catch me in classI moved back home, stayed out, slept in'Til one Monday morning I heard Daddy screamYou're twenty-four years old boy, going on eighteenCHORUS: Hey all I'm dying to do is to liveJust tryin' to take what the day has to giveEveryone wants but they don't always get what's expected of meThey say act your age, don't break no moldBe young when you're young and old when you're oldThey say I'm in the prime of my life, hell if I know what that meansIn the back of my mind I'm still going on eighteenGot the wife, got the kids, got the job, got the cars and the houseIn life's little rulebook it falls under "all settled down"But give a handful of friends a handful drinksIt's like riding a time machineAbunch of thirytsomething-year-old guys going on eighteenREPEAT CHORUSNow I preach to my boy be a kid just as long as you canBut he's hell-bent and determinedTo be his old man
