When You're Twenty one

When You're Twenty-one

Youth has little conception of age when they're young.
They sing the songs they always knew and have always sung.
They seldom ever worry about "on down whatever road."
Life is now, this moment and not always concerned about the oats being sowed.

I think when you're young you mentally divide
The age groups into baby, youth, middle age and old with "knowing pride."
As each group fades away they are faced with a reality they never saw.
Life raced on by as they lived their "each day" - "life's law."

At twenty-one it's not exactly natural to peer through time to seventy-one.
It wasn't planned that way! Just how much of youthful fun
Could you possibly have if you were so preoccupied with seventy-one?
You meet it when it seeks you out. That's how it's done!

Consider your mate who was never real gung-ho about facing that aging thing.
Not only will his kids be past their youthful fling
But wife will be along beside him complaining of the decline
Of all you took for granted and you, now, must leave behind.

It's just a natural process and if we're even lucky enough
To reach old age with all those changes and stuff,
You sort of call it a pretty good payoff for having been allowed
To live a full life and reap your harvest, thanking God for it all, real loud.