Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
I wake just to find another day's past me by
And that's all i remember so far
Watch the sun dreary eyes illuminate the moons goodbye
Oh how it feels to be young
Oh its over - the day that we change
Oh the love we'd instill if we stay this way
Still we change with the times
but see the clocks don't rewind
all the hands generally do is they please
Still it's on and on i hear our name
a generation left astray
Oh how it feels to be loved
Oh its over - the day that we change
Oh the love we'd instill if we stay
Cos when you die, well, you die so just live how you please
because we all are alive and we're free
let not anyone claim forward thought paves mistakes
cos they dressed us, then left us alone
So i'll wait till I find another day we're all trying
to believe i should leave my sheets behind
And that's all i remember so far
Watch the sun dreary eyes illuminate the moons goodbye
Oh how it feels to be young
Oh its over - the day that we change
Oh the love we'd instill if we stay this way
Still we change with the times
but see the clocks don't rewind
all the hands generally do is they please
Still it's on and on i hear our name
a generation left astray
Oh how it feels to be loved
Oh its over - the day that we change
Oh the love we'd instill if we stay
Cos when you die, well, you die so just live how you please
because we all are alive and we're free
let not anyone claim forward thought paves mistakes
cos they dressed us, then left us alone
So i'll wait till I find another day we're all trying
to believe i should leave my sheets behind
Lyrics submitted by muddie08
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