The rooms were so much colder then   My father was a soldier then   And times were very hard   When I was young   When I was young      Smoked my first cigarette at ten   And for girls, I had a bad aim   Oh, I meant so very much   When I was young   When I was young      When I was young, it was more important   Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah   When I was young   When I was young      Don't you know, I met my first love at thirteen?   She was brown, and I was pretty green   I learned so very much   When I was young   When I was young      Love, my love, my love   Love, my love   Love, my love   Yeah, yeah      When I was young, it was more important   Pain more painful, laughter much louder, yeah   When I was young   When I was a baby      My faith was so much stronger then   I believed in my fellow men   I was really so much older then   When I was young   When I was young      When I was a baby, baby, baby, love   When I [Incomprehensible], yeah   Just got to [Incomprehensible] with no shoes   [Incomprehensible], oh love      When I was young   When I was young   When I was young   When I was a baby, baby, baby, oh love   When I was young   When I was young   When I was young, yeah