You Burned Yourself Out - Rupert Holmes

When you were 15, my love

You put your head through hell:

Your body was clean, sweet love

But oh, your life was far from being well

When you were 16, my love

You’d come to be quite wise:

So much had you seen, sweet love

Your face went deathly pale with hollow eyes

You burned yourself out, you burned yourself out

You did yourself in, and then

From all of the noise, the pills, and the boys

You burned yourself out again

And then you turned 17

I took you, like a game

But others had known you well

And taught you every move that I could name

So then you gave up on love

And lived off ups and downs

The strangers would pick you up

And take you in the back to other towns

You burned yourself out, you burned yourself out

And wound up in Idaho

You married a cop, the babies don’t stop

There’s no further out to go

You burned yourself out, you burned yourself out

You did yourself in, and then

From all that you blamed, you flared up and flamed

And burned yourself out again

You burned yourself out