It Was A Very Good Year Lyrics - Flaming Lips

When I was seventeen it was a very good year 

It was a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights 

We'd hide from the lights on the village green 

When I was seventeen 

When I was twenty-one it was a very good year 

It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair 

With all that perfumed hair and it came undone 

When I was twenty-one 

Then I was thirty-five it was a very good year 

It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls 

Of independent means, we'd ride in limousines their chauffeurs would drive 

When I was thirty-five 

But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year 

And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs 

From the brim to the dregs, and it poured sweet and clear 

It was a very good year 

It was a mess of good years