Only Young - Smile

This is the downstairs room where it all began

With a green microphone and no future plan

I’d stay inside and play 'til my hands went numb

Strumming my J-45 until the rising sun

There was word on the streets that I would make it far

My last intention was to be a star

I always found them stupid in the magazines

Sharing their broken lives like they were broken jeans

I was only young with an unknown road ahead of me

That I had to take I had to face my destiny

'Cos when you’re young

You’ll do whatever it takes to get signed up

And get on the road to your destiny

Before long I was packing my stuff and hitting the road

My old yellow Renault could barely handle the load

My cosy quiet town life, my future ex wife

Were soon to be replaced by fun fast exciting times

I developed a taste for heavy chemicals and dope

That was the first real footfall on a very slippery slope

The house of cards I built slowly tumbled down

As I gradually became less easier to be around

I was only young, with an unknown road ahead of me

That I had to take I had to face my destiny

'Cos when you’re young

You’ll do whatever it takes to get signed up

And get on the road to your destiny