20 Something Escapade

Young blonde-haired kid with the wide-eyed big dreams
Singing and dancing in grass-stained blue jeans
Make believe, make a friend, make mistakes, make your mark, and all that

Folks growing up say you're old for your age
Maybe that's just what happens to young kids these days
Go to school, get good grades, go to work and get paid, just do that

She's more careful than carefree
But she's care filled for those she sees
Quiet and thoughtful
Her thoughts filled with city-light dreams
Life's a book, age a page
It's a 20-something escapade

Advice comes and goes from the new and the old
20 something and young at least that's what you're told
Go on dates, stay out late, save your money, spend your time, just try that

And it's long summer drives down a windy dirt road
Single light small towns with nowhere to go
A corner stop coffee shop
With friends that you've known since age 10

She's more careful than carefree
But she's care filled for those she sees
Quiet and thoughtful
Her thoughts filled with city-light dreams
Life's a book, age a page
It's a 20-something escapade

Planning your fate doesn't work all the time
Sometimes life rearranges and cripples your pride
It's a notebook-filled legacy you're leaving behind just for this

And your rose-colored glasses
Tint more over time
Maybe careful and carefree can both intertwine
Maybe single-lane dirt roads and small-town big dreams don't dead end

She's more careful than carefree
But she's care filled for those she sees
Quiet and thoughtful
Her thoughts filled with city-light dreams
Life's a book, age a page
It's a 20-something escapade

So that grass-stained blue jean kid who ran all around
With the coffee shop big kids all over town
She's both careful and carefree and
Care filled for those she surrounds

Life's a book, age a page
It's a 20-something escapade