Ba da da, ba da dum
Ba da, da, da, da, da
Ba da da, ba da dum
Ba da, da, da, da, da
Ba da da, ba da dum
Ba da, da, da, da, da
Ba da da, ba da dum
Ba da, da, da, da, da

I dreamt of us
And nearly cursed the rising sun when I woke up
A heavy chest
And hazel eyes with angel dust
Can I go back to being young and out of touch?
Can I go back to being young and out of touch?

Ba da da, ba da dum
Ba da, da, da, da, da
Ba da da, ba da dum
Ba da, da, da, da, da

I picked her up
And felt the same magnetic pulse that woke me up
My moral compass needle’s spinning, I’m in love
In a familiar place but I feel kinda lost
A tiny ship at sea, and I am getting tossed
You come and go like a tide
And I’m along for the ride
But now I’m left high and dry
Oh, I’ve been thinking 'bout the way things were
When I was a child
And how things have changed
And my life got wild, but
It’ll never be the way it was again
But you can’t blame me for playing pretend!

She was an island
Of hot, golden sand
I was a sailor starving
For a taste of land
Drink of the water
The fountain of truth
Naïveté is always wasted on the youth

Striving for knowledge
But missing the truth
You and I both ate of the forbidden fruit
Lord, give me patience
And self-control
Oh, I am a ship at sea and I’ve been left to hull

You come and go like a tide
And I’m along for the ride
But now I’m left high and dry
Oh, I’ve been thinking ’bout the way things were
When I was a child
And how things have changed
And my life got wild, but
It’ll never be the way it was again
But you can’t blame me for playing pretend!
She was an island
Of hot, golden sand
I was a sailor starving for a taste of land
Drink of the water
The fountain of truth
Naïveté is always wasted on the youth

It’ll never be the way it was again
Crawl back in the sheets and get lost in my head!