Twenty One Lyrics - Phil Vassar

I think, before I speak 

I turn the other cheek more than I used to 

I'm surprised I'm alive after 

All of the crazy things that I do 

I've still got that wild streak you love 

But I'm not the man I was 

But I think I like me better now 

Than when I was twenty one 

Back then, I ran with 

A reckless abandon in a Pontiac 

An' I'd smile with a misguided pride 

When they'd call me a maniac 

And I couldn't get gone fast enough 

God knows I was the Prodigal Son 

I took a match to every bridge 

Back then when I was twenty one 

Whoa, whoa, age does change us 

And it's a good thing that it does 

It pays the wages, man 

I can't believe how far I've come 

From when I was twenty-one 

Whoa, whoa, yeah 

To those broken hearts I left without regard 

I didn't know the consequences 

I apologize an' with a little time now 

I've come to my senses 

And now, I see the power and the promise 

In commitment to your love 

That's something I could never have done 

When I was twenty one 

Whoa, whoa, age does change us 

And it's a good thing that it does 

It pays the wages, man 

I can't believe how far I've come 

From when I was twenty one 

Whoa, whoa, whoa, when I was twenty one 

Whoa, when I was twenty one 

Mmm, hmm