Old Before Your Time (Don't Wanna Be) Poem by Peter Strugnell

No place to run, no place to hide,
Oh how the bright lights shine,
all the bad news, I let it slide,
don't wanna be old before my time.

This is where I am & what I wanna do,
I just want to play all the time,
we shall never be, you and me,
sad and old before our time

There's a life out there, a life to choose,
How can people be so blind,
I just ain't got that time to lose,
don't wanna be old before my time.

I've worked my fingers to the bone,
I think I've paid all my fines,
someone pass me my megaphone,
don't wanna be OLD BEFORE MY TIME!

Way up high where the sky is wide,
I hope they will hang this sign,
Here lies a man never sanitized,
and never old before his time.