Robert Forster - The Candle and the Flame

When I Was a Young Man

When I was a young man
21
I wrote songs
I was on The Sun
Unheralded and undone
When I was a young man

I lived in a house
Down a lane
It was so beautiful there
The times were insane
I wrote more songs, and I heard the rain
In that house down the lane

When I was a young man
I didn't know
People told me
Go man, go
That's what they told me
Go, go, go

When I was a young man

Elder brothers
I had a few
One was named David, and the other was Lou
They showed me what it was
That I could do
David and Lou

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ahhh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ahhh, yeah

Raised by mother
Raised by dad
Raised by my brother in the harmony that we had
I was never lonely, and I was never sad
I was never lonely

I left home
At 21
I didn't go far
I followed the sun
Making it brighter for everyone
I left home at 21

Perceptive girl
Of 21
I looked high and low, I found none
How fast, can a young man run?
Let me tell you there were none

Elder brothers
They came along
There was a new David
And there was Tom
They bewitched me, In wardrobe and song

When I was a young man
When I was a young man
When I was a young man

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ahhh, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ahhh, yeah

Ahhhhh
Yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ahhh, yeah



Credits
Writer(s): Robert Derwent Garth Forster
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Other Album Tracks

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  3. It's Only Poison
  4. The Roads
  5. I Don't Do Drugs I Do Time
  6. Always
  7. There's a Reason to Live
  8. Go Free
  9. When I Was a Young Man

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Altri album

  1. Warm Nights (2024 Remaster)
  2. Beautiful Hearts (2024 Remaster)
  3. Did You End Up with the One You Love?
  4. The Candle and the Flame
  5. Tender Years
  6. She's a Fighter
  7. 10th Grade
  8. Danger in the Past (Bonus Tracks - 2020 Remaster)
  9. Calling from a Country Phone (2020 Remaster)
  10. Danger in the Past (2020 Remaster)

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