What good
Has it done me?
What help...
In this insanity?
What chance
Can it give me?
How much
Can they take away?

I wanna get old before I die.
I want to hear a lover sigh.
I want to see a baby smile for love -
Not forgotten in a dark and dirty hole
To face this world alone.
I wanna get old and slow right down before I die.

I wanna get old before I die.
I want to see you one more time...
And hold you by my side forever.
I want a chance. I want to be
A man of promises and dreams.
I wanna get old and slow tight down before I die.