They tell you while you're young

Girls, go out and have your fun

Then they hunt and slay the ones who actually do it

Criticize the way you fly

When you're soarin' through the sky

Shoot you down, and then they sigh and say

She looks like she's been through it

Lord, what will become of me

Once I've lost my novelty

I've had too much to drink tonight

And I know it's sad, but this is what I think about

And I wake up in the middle of the night

It's like I can feel time moving

How can a person know everything at eighteen but nothin' at twenty-two

And will you still want me when I'm nothin' new

How long will it be cute

All this cryin' in my room

Whеn you can't blame it on my youth, and roll your eyes with affеction

And my cheeks are growin' tired

From turnin' red and fakin' smiles

Are we only bidin' time 'til I lose your attention

And someone else lights up the room

People love an ingénue

I've had too much to drink tonight

How did I go from growin' up to breakin' down and I

Wake up (wake up)

In the middle of the night

It's like I can feel time moving

How can a person know everything at eighteen but nothing at twenty-two

And will you still want me when I'm nothin' new

I know someday I'm gonna meet her

It's a fever dream

The kind of radiance you only have at seventeen

She'll know the way and then she'll say she got the map from me

I'll say I'm happy for her, then I'll cry myself to sleep

Oh, oh, woah

Oh, oh, oh, woah

I've had (I've had) too much to drink tonight

But I wonder if they'll miss me once they drive me out

I wake up (wake up)

In the middle of the night

And I can feel time moving

How can a person know everything at eighteen but nothing at twenty-two

And will you still want me

Will you still want me

Will you still want me

When I'm nothin' new