ATF: Youthful Indiscretions

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Fun.]

We Are Young

Fun.

Give me a second

I

I need to get my story straight

My friends are in the bathroom

Getting higher

Than the Empire State

My lover

She's waiting for me

Just across the bar

My seat's been taken by some sunglasses

Asking about a scar

And I know I gave it to you months ago

I know you're trying to forget

But between the drinks and subtle things

The holes in my apologies

You know

I'm trying hard to take it back

So if by the time

The bar closes

And you feel like falling down

I'll carry

You home

Tonight

We are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter

Than the sun

Tonight

We are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter

Than the sun

Now I know it

I'm not

All that

You got

I guess that I

I just thought

Maybe we could find new ways to fall apart

But our friends are back

So let's raise a cup

'Cause I found someone

To carry me home

Tonight

We are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter

Than the sun

Tonight

We are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter

Than the sun

Carry me

 Home tonight

Just carry me

Home tonight

Carry me

Home tonight

Just carry me

Home tonight

The world is on my side

I have no reason to run

So will someone come

And carry me

Home tonight

The angles never arrived

But I can hear the choir

So will someone come

and carry me home

Tonight

We are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter

Than the sun

Tonight

We are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter

Than the sun

So if by the time

The bar closes

And you feel like falling down

I'll carry

You home

Tonight

Link: [The Verve Pipe]

The Freshmen

The Verve Pipe

When I was young I knew everything

And she a punk who rarely ever took advice

Now I'm guilt-stricken

Sobbin’

With my head on the floor

Stop a baby's breath

And a shoe full of rice

No

I can't be held responsible

'Cause she was touchin’ her face

I won't be held responsible

She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me

I cannot remember

What made us think that we were wise

And we'd never compromise

For the life of me

I cannot believe

We'd ever die

For these sins

We were merely freshmen

My best friend took a week's vacation to forget her

His girl took a week's worth of valium and slept

And now he's guilt-stricken

Sobbin’

With his head on the floor

Thinks about her now

And how he never really wept

He says

I can't be held responsible

'Cause she was touchin’ her face

I won't be held responsible

She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me

I cannot remember

What made us think that we were wise

And we'd never compromise

For the life of me

I cannot believe

We'd ever die

For these sins

We were merely freshmen

We've tried to wash our hands of all of this

We never talk of our lackin’ relationships

And how we're guilt-stricken

Sobbin’

With our heads on the floor

We fell through the ice

When we tried not to slip

We'd say

I can't be held responsible

'Cause she was touchin’ her face

And I won't be held responsible

She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me

I cannot remember

What made us think that we were wise

And we'd never compromise

For the life of me

I cannot believe

We'd ever die

For these sins

We were merely freshmen

For the life of me

I cannot remember

What made us think that we were wise

And we'd never compromise

For the life of me

I cannot believe

We'd ever die

For these sins

We were merely freshmen

We were merely freshmen

We were only freshmen

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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