Heaven at Seventeen - Swingin Utters

You reached for heaven at seventeen

You caught the clap from some teenage queen

You took a tablet and hit it again and that’s all right

Sometimes you took the deck too far

Some say you took it all way too hard

The mediocrity in moderation was way too tight

Did you ever stop to think of what was real?

Did you compromise your time just to cop a feel?

You think that the time flew by

Twenty years ago come July

You’re getting older but not so wise and that’s all right

You go for words that you cannot reach

Spew antiseptic allegories

A walking diuretic of dictionary rhymes

Don’t you even know your dreams are not for real?

Don’t you ever find it hard to forge what you feel?

Just quit your bitching and confess

Time of your life just came and went

You’re gonna drown in shallowness

In the empty sea of frat boys and dunces

You reached for heaven at seventeen

You caught the clap from some teenage queen

Woke up from your suburban daydream, opened your eyes