I Tried to Die Young

I tried to die young Which made me prematurely old But I made sure to overindulge In sex and drugs and rock and roll But the sex produced a child The drugs only worked for a little while And rock and roll got boring on the night the audience stayed at home I tried to die young Which made up ten miles of bad road Which leads to a nice place to visit If you don't run into anyone you know Cause we all know how people talk You southern belles just can't refrain from flapping your jaws The rumors still abound about the nights when I was trying to die young But I've only now realized That there's nothing wrong With stacking up the years and maybe Getting on It's as if we say survivors don't belong There's nothing worse than carrying on When there's nothing left to carry There's nothing left to carry at all I tried to die young I couldn't live past twenty-seven I couldn't leave a good lookin' corpse just yet Cause I hadn't left enough behind to live on My next work will always be my best The next record will always be my last Hell, this could be the last time any of you ever see me alive But I've only now realized That there's nothing wrong With stacking up the years and maybe Getting on It's as if we say survivors don't belong Well, there's nothing worse than carrying on When there's nothing left to carry There's nothing left to carry There's nothing left to carry at all When there's nothing left to carry at all