Face Off / Youth

[Face Off]

Lots of them

You know there's lots of them

There's reasons

Everyday changes my mind like the seasons

I'm asking for answers

I'm looking in mirrors

Ripples in rivers

Face just drifting away, away

Where's the reasoning?

Yes and no are neither good enough

Gimme some of that, gimme some of that, gimme some of that, spontaneity stuff

Blink before you think too hard

Saw your smile in a passing car

Borrowed your pen

I wanna write like you do again and again and again and again

Riots in the uniform of peace

Coupla big ones up your sleeve

Ten to nine and it's shut down the factory

Pull up the floorboards and build a bonfire

Having a party in your head

Sniff this greezer! And go to bed!

Turned off the light

Stayed up all night

Blown to bits!

Shrivelled up opened out and exploded

Where he usually sits

Go to it youth

Discover the truth

Don't bottle it up

Cos it's 99% proof

[Youth]

No no it's not how old you are

Not the blushing brides and the propped up bar

After the bells have rung

And the next perspective has begun

Not the corner of some foreign field

Not the name engraved on stainless steel

Not the thank you note for inventing the wheel

But an innocence dressed in knowing too much

Never scared to theorise but half scared to touch

But rejecting the world that made it such

Oh to be as youthful as I am

Oh to be as manic as you are

Oh to be as worried in our happiness

But never will we be so near

Yet look so far

Be so near

Yet look so far

Yet look so far

Beyond the social attitudes

That narrow the path and distort the view

Complacency defies energy

And the other way round

We grow as fast as time is slow

We grow as fast as time is slow

We grow as fast as time is slow

Enough to keep our head to the ground

For youthfulness is a louder sound

Than age - that turning of the page - can make

A forced resemblance of getting old

Left the majority feeling cold

Forgot that energy never gets old

We grow with what we'll always know

And feel the sense of experience

Experience - Youth, youth

Experience - Youth, youth

Experience - Youth