Young Again

(Music & Lyrics © Ronald D. Crowder and Danny Rubin)

ASCAP

This is a song I wrote with my friend Danny Rubin. We were brainstorming on an idea for a new song and had been having a discussion about our youth, and saying, “wouldn’t it be cool to be young again?” And as we discussed it, we both started to agree that there were problems with being young, too. Struggles. We both liked the title "Young Again" and kept coming back to it, trying to find an angle that worked. Ultimately, what we came up with looks back at youth with a combination of fondness and trepidation, while also looking at adulthood in terms of its pains and degradation but also coming into acceptance of who we are. The hook line, “wouldn’t want to be young again,” ultimately morphs into the punch line, “maybe once or twice, baby every day of my life.”

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I remember driving way to fast  

Through the county pasture  

And the brown cow patties 

We stopped and gathered up the psylocibin 

Found a sinkhole to dive in 

Fired up a couple fatties 

Sounds carefree now 

But every second then seemed filled with tension 

And fear and doubt 

And a thousand dark moments too awful to mention 

I remember sticky summer days 

In a Ripple-haze 

Floating down the Ichetucknee 

Way back then anyone could tell 

I was cute as hell 

But nobody would fuck me 

Did you? Did you? 

Would anyone ever? I was left to wonder 

And what would I do? 

Would I have to sell my soul just to find my place? 

I can’t even kill the pimple on the front of my face! 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

It's a false refrain 

That I won’t be singing tonight 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

It was all a pain 

If my memory serves me right 

Wondering will I ever find a job, will I find my bliss 

Will I find a reason for all of this? 

Will I chase my dreams or just float in the pool? 

Will I be a free man or a corporate tool? 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

but every now and then 

maybe once or twice 

baby, every day of my life 

I remember lying in my bed 

Endless nights of dread 

With my eyes up on the ceiling 

I saw the future as big abyss 

Or something I might miss 

But all those anxious feelings 

Are behind me now 

I don’t worry about things that just don't matter 

Made it through somehow 

Without getting jaded or bitter or fatter 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

It's a false refrain 

That I won’t be singing tonight 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

It was all a pain 

If my memory serves me right 

Looking at you with blurry eyes through my cataracts 

With a single sneeze throwing out my back 

Careful of my knees when I’m in the sack 

Taking baby aspirin for a heart attack 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

Wouldn’t want to be young again 

but every now and then 

maybe once or twice 

baby, every day of my life 

but every now and then 

maybe once or twice 

baby, every day of my life 

but every now and then 

maybe once or twice 

baby, every day of my life

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