Going On Eighteen Lyrics - Singles - Dusty Drake

Mama preached to me, boy be a kid just as long as you can 

But I was hell-bent and bound and determined to be my old man 

I was ready to drive and I wanted a job 

Hungry to chase my dreams 

Way back when I was twelve years old going on eighteen 

Those four years of college I stretched into six and a half 

If I woke up in time after parties you'd catch me in class 

Well, I moved back home, stayed out, slept in 

Till one Monday morning I heard Daddy scream 

You're twenty-four years old boy, still going on eighteen 

Hey, all I'm dying to do is to live 

Just tryin' to take what the day has to give 

Everyone wants but they don't always get what's expected of me 

They say act your age, don't break no mold 

Be young when you're young and old when you're old 

They say I'm in the prime of my life, hell if I know what that means 

In the back of my mind I'm still going on eighteen 

Got the wife, got the kids, got the job, got the cars and the house 

Well in life's little rulebook it falls under all settled down 

But give a handful of friends, a handful drinks 

It's like riding a time machine, yeah 

A bunch of thirty something year old guys going on eighteen 

Hey, all I'm dying to do is to live 

Just tryin' to take what the day has to give 

Everyone wants but they don't always get what's expected of me 

They say, "Act your age, don't break no mold" 

Be young when you're young and old when you're old 

They say I'm in the prime of my life, hell if I know what that means 

In the back of my mind I'm still going on eighteen 

Now I preach to my boy be a kid just as long as you can 

But he's hell-bent and bound and determined to be his old man