14 today and you went dancing
   Music mixed with laughter
   And boys can be so insecure
   They made you drink a bit too much
   Everything's a blur of feel and touch
   Did he really like you
   How can you be sure enough
  
  
   23 today and all your friends are getting married
   You say they're so scared of being alone
   So self righteously you march though teachers college
   Still so much in life you gotta get to know
   Seems like everybody's so content to move so slow
  
   And when you think you've got your life so well controlled
   It slips away
   And the years like raindrops falling from your life are
   Washed away
   You're so brilliant, you're so gifted, so sensitive, so strong
   As you hide behind your barricade of words
   But no one got close enough to you to have ever heard
  
   I met you at a party you were drunk and full of world advice
   And I was getting nervous
   You said you had a child who was a genius and you smiled
   As the living room transformed into your circus
   Someone whispered you were 39 today a face so you
   Eyes so old
   You collapsed into the corner
   Like somebody of raw nerves you near seduced me
   With your verbs
   As I reached out for you
   You said over and over
  
   Children come home from school
   Shout and laugh with all their life
   Shit em out fast before you think of the past
   Turn out all your lights
   Go to bed got to sleep don't think don't feel
   As the night time moans a prayer
   That maybe somewhere deep inside
   There's some meaning aching to be shared