Nineteen

Old 97s · Fight Songs [1999]

Nineteen

Is not the age of reason.

I didn't have a reason

To setting you free.



I've seen

A lot of love go sour.

But that's not our love.

You see the problem was



I was only nineteen.



Yeah, I was only nineteen.

Finished up with high school.

Headed for a state school.

Wandered into you.



Big screen

Kissing in a movie.

God, you moved me around.

We got seriously down.



But I was only nineteen.



Chorus:

All I ever wanted to do

Was lie around in bed with you.

I was only nineteen. I was only nineteen.

I was only nineteen. I was only nineteen.



I've seen

A lot of love go bad now.

That's not how our affair

Would've wound up I swear.



But I was only nineteen.



Chorus



I was only nineteen.