Twentysomething
© 2004 katie laurel smith, kate laurel publishing/ASCAP

Twentysomething hit me just today
Right between the eyes and
Woke up with little at all to say
And a world to realize

Monday runnin’ finding something new
Try to fit it all in right now
‘cause Tuesday may not see me through
and I’ve lost it all somehow

This ever-changing tide
Has left us high and dry
But we’ve got so much life to live 
Before we wave this time goodbye

So there’s life after twenty-seven fades away
Still we believe in all these lies
Youth is blind and runnin’ afraid
That age is the enemy line

Idealism haunts us like a ghost
In the attic of self-contempt
We’re gonna have to make it on our own
No matter how alone we get

Oh I wish I’d asked for help back then
Oh God I’ve been naïve
Hindsight’s twenty-twenty way back when 
And I hope I still believe

This ever-changing tide
Has left us high and dry
But we’ve got so much life to live
Before we wave this time goodbye

If somehow thirty sneaks up on us
Before we’ve done it all
Something’s gotta give 
Oh our tower standing tall
Twentysomething freedom lead me on
I’ll take this minute, revel in it
And proudly take my fall
Proudly take my fall