14 Today

<br>14 today and you went dancing<br><br>Music mixed with laughter<br><br>And boys can be so insecure<br><br>They made you drink a bit too much<br><br>Everythings a blur of feel and touch<br><br>Did he really like you<br><br>How can you be sure enough<br><br><br><br><br><br>23 today and all your friends are getting married<br><br>You say theyre so scared of being alone<br><br>So self righteously you march though teachers college<br><br>Still so much in life you gotta get to know<br><br>Seems like everybodys so content to move so slow<br><br><br><br>And when you think youve got your life so well controlled<br><br>It slips away<br><br>And the years like raindrops falling from your life are<br><br>Washed away<br><br>Youre so brilliant, youre so gifted, so sensitive, so strong<br><br>As you hide behind your barricade of words<br><br>But no one got close enough to you to have ever heard<br><br><br><br>I met you at a party you were drunk and full of world advice<br><br>And I was getting nervous<br><br>You said you had a child who was a genius and you smiled<br><br>As the living room transformed into your circus<br><br>Someone whispered you were 39 today a face so you<br><br>Eyes so old<br><br>You collapsed into the corner<br><br>Like somebody of raw nerves you near seduced me<br><br>With your verbs<br><br>As I reached out for you<br><br>You said over and over<br><br><br><br>Children come home from school<br><br>Shout and laugh with all their life<br><br>Shit em out fast before you think of the past<br><br>Turn out all your lights<br><br>Go to bed got to sleep dont think dont feel<br><br>As the night time moans a prayer<br><br>That maybe somewhere deep inside<br><br>Theres some meaning aching to be shared