When I was small Not prone to caring And I didn't count the days at all Old age was leather skinned Wide eyed and wedding ringed worn thin Worn thin with some time sharing Cool eighteen And finished learnin' There was nothin' more to know to know And my first girl lay wide eyed And innocence was lost and good-byed forever And in my soul I was burnin' It's a mixed up sensation This being alive Oh it wears a man down into the ground It's the strangest elation I can't describe it Oh it leaves a man weary Oh it makes a man frown Now I'm grown And sometime travellin' And I don't quite feel at ease at ease Tongue tied and mystified I work it out Lord I'm wonderin' Lord I'm wonderin' Lord I'm wonderin'