Haven't heard this in a while...

**scOtt** · 06-06-2009 11:14 PM

I thought of Paul Simon the other night... "Still Crazy After All These Years". Then I thought, "I am! I'm still the same crazy young 14-year-old I was then. I know a thang or two more now, but at my core... I'm still that crazy kid. 30-Something years later.

Then last night I heard this...

Beach Boys

When I grow up to be a man
Will I dig the same things that turn me on as a kid?
Will I look back and say that I wish I hadn't done what I did?
Will I joke around and still dig those sounds
When I grow up to be a man?

Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girl?
(fourteen fifteen)
Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the world?
(sixteen seventeen)
Now I'm young and free, but how will it be
When I grow up to be a man?

Oooooo Ooooooo Oooooooo
Will my kids be proud or think their old man is really a square?
(eighteen nineteen)
When they're out having fun yeah, will I still wanna have my share?
(twenty twenty-one)
Will I love my wife for the rest of my life
When I grow up to be a man?

What will I be when I grow up to be a man?
(twenty-two twenty-three)
Won't last forever
(twenty-four twenty-five)
It's kind of sad
(twenty-six twenty-seven)
Won't last forever
(twenty-eight twenty-nine)
It's kind of sad
(thirty thirty-one)
Won't last forever
(thirty-two . . .)

© 1965 Beach Boys Brian Wilson Capitol Records et. al.

If we could only know what we know now, when we were young... At the time it might most have benefitted us.