When I Was Young

The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then Times were very hard when I was young When I was young I smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls I had a that yen And I have quite a ball when I was young When I was young, it was more important Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah When I was young, when I was young I met my first love at thirteen She was brown and I was pretty green I learned quite a lot when I was young When I was young When I was young it was more important Pain more painful, laughter much louder, yeah When I was young When I was young My faith was so much stronger then I believed in fellow men And I was so much older then When I was young, when I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young