Young Once - The Smith Street Band

I was so damn clever in my own little world

Gone and made the perfect gesture for the perfect girl

But nothing ever really works out like that

On the day and the day after

The feeling of disaster that I’ve truly got to know

In the months since I came home

Came back, nothing ever really works out like that

And we were young once

So was everyone

I guess something about it felt important

If I could remember the name of everyone I’d kissed

Does that mean they’d remember mine?

Was there something in that momentary bliss?

Such a beautiful waste of time

Today we sat together like the family we had made

And it was real and it was something and we ate off plastic plates

And we all work our dream jobs and I’m not lacking in ambition

I am a building of a person that’s scheduled for demolition

And we were young once

So was everyone

I guess something about it felt important

And we were happy once

So was everyone

I guess I never realised it was so important

What if I was right for someone else?

And what if I never learn how to live with myself?

And what if when I leave, you find someone that completes you?

Will that change anything

Or will I turn back into a pattern I’m so used to?

Pattern I’m so used to

And we were young once

So was everyone

I guess something about it felt important

And we were happy once

So was everyone

I guess I never realised it was so important

And we were young once

We were young once

We were young once

Again, again

Again, again

We were happy once

Again, again