When I was a baby I hadn't a care in the world,
But now I'm a man, my troubles fill my head,
When I was five it was good to be alive,
But now I'm a man, I wish that I were dead.
My how time rushes by,
The moment you're born you start to die,
Time waits for no man,
And your life's spent, it's over before you begin.
As I sit here at my window,
My life comes back to me,
It's been so long since the good days,
It's been so long.
And I count up all the wasted years,
The hopes and the fears,
The laughs and the tears,
And I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what went wrong.
When I was a boy I had the mind of a boy,
But now I'm a man, ain't got no mind at all,
When I was in my teens I had my share of dreams,
But now I'm a man, ain't got no dreams at all.
My how time rushes by,
The moment you're born you start to die,
Time waits for no man,
And your life's spent, it's over before you begin.
As I sit here at my window,
My life comes back to me,
It's been so long since the good days,
It's been so long.
And I count up all the wasted years,
The hopes and the fears,
The laughs and the tears,
And I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what went wrong.
But now I'm a man, my troubles fill my head,
When I was five it was good to be alive,
But now I'm a man, I wish that I were dead.
The moment you're born you start to die,
Time waits for no man,
And your life's spent, it's over before you begin.
My life comes back to me,
It's been so long since the good days,
It's been so long.
The hopes and the fears,
The laughs and the tears,
And I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what went wrong.
But now I'm a man, ain't got no mind at all,
When I was in my teens I had my share of dreams,
But now I'm a man, ain't got no dreams at all.
The moment you're born you start to die,
Time waits for no man,
And your life's spent, it's over before you begin.
My life comes back to me,
It's been so long since the good days,
It's been so long.
The hopes and the fears,
The laughs and the tears,
And I wonder, I wonder, I wonder what went wrong.
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I love the line the verse - i wanna play cricket on the green, ride my bike across the stream, cut myself and see my blood, i wanna come home all covered in mud. takes me back when life was that simple...
i like this song, and when i sing it my parents give me weird looks
Sounds like it's about a brother stuck with all sisters. This song is FUNNY! Absolutely love it.
This reminds me of something I was reading in a parenting book. (Yeah, I'm a 14-year-old, but I read parenting books. Just for fun. Gosh can I be weird.) I was reading about parents who want to have a girl but their child ends up being a boy (or they want a boy and they get a girl). This happens sometimes. People usually get over the disappointment, but the book said that there are some extreme cases where parents will not accept this and so, they'll act as though they DID have a girl even though their kid is really a boy. They'll give him a girl's name (or a name that works for both genders), they'll give him girly toys like dolls to play with, they'll dress him like a girl and they'll even identify him as a girl (which, to me, just seems really really weird). That's basically what this song is about. Pete Townshend's basically just writing a song about those kind of parents and the unfortunate child who lives with this situation. (How much you wanna bet that, when he's grown, he'll want to distance himself from these parents for this and then they'll have no one to blame but themselves?)
Hey, no worries. I thought I could read auoras when I was 14, thnx to the library. Oh, and check out "Boy Named Sue." It's funny too! Oh, and another one by The Fray, but I forget.
Hey, no worries. I thought I could read auoras when I was 14, thnx to the library. Oh, and check out "Boy Named Sue." It's funny too! Oh, and another one by The Fray, but I forget.
this song makes me think of gender identity; whoever telling the story in this song is biologically female, but they are mentally a male and don't get to always do the boy things that they want.
Interesting, like what?
Interesting, like what?
this is such an awesome song, written for pete's rock opera about the future, in which a family chose all girls but were stuck with a boy...great sound, too
this song is funny.
This song makes me laugh everytime. Pete Townshend is an awesome songwriter and the beat is one of the greatest.
This song makes me laugh everytime. Pete Townshend is an awesome songwriter and the beat is one of the greatest.
I love the lyric "But if I say I am, I get it" it cracks me up