What?

What?

i am so young/ i'm still fascinated by how they make babies and by my own bellybutton lint/ im perfectly content to eat a dinner that consists of crackerjacks, kool-aid adn cigarrettes/ the way i'm going now/ at this rate/ next year/ i'll be like/ eight

i am so young/ i can go to your party and turn up your speakers/ dance around half naked in your living room/eat up all your cheese crackers/ grab a bottle of your gin on my way out the door/ when you're all asleep i'll come back for more/ nobody takes me to task on any of this shit cause i'm still so young

i am so young/ i can go out on a monday night/ match you whiskey for whiskey/ start a bar fight/ go into work the next day all hungover with a back eye and a palm print on my cheeck and still accomplish more in one day than you did all last week cause i'm so full of energy/ so full of vitality/ i am still so young

i am so young/ but i can hold my own in conversations about chaos theory and the book of revelations/ microbiology and theatre philosophy/ it's been over a year since i got my degree and last week i turned 23 and hey that's a lot to have accomplished for somebody so young.

i am so young/ i can drop out/ quit jobs/ skip town/ get high/ take all the money in my bank account i guarantee/ in one it'll be spend/ the money was meant for my bills/ right/ it was meant for my rent/ but my landlord got a crush on me/ he always lets me pay late/ i'm telling you it's great being this young.

i am so young/ "self-destruction" is still a cute word for me to have in my vocabulary/ somebody pour me a drink/ bum me a smoke and gimmie a light cause cancer/ alcoholism/ they're like/ thirty years away at this point/ i still cross my fingers and hold my breath/ */ when i pass graveyards/ bookshelves in my house are filled with pressed four leaf clovers/ i don't have one night stands/ i have sleepovers.

i am so young/ i can take a love that is pure and true and fuck it up real good/ and hurt you and...

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