Twenty-Something (Concert Version)

from Tales from the Bad Years

ALL
Ooh, oh, ah.

WOMAN 1
My whole life is right in front of me.
I can go anywhere.
Two whole decades can’t prepare you for the moment
When the page is blank before you and you’re barely even twenty-something.

WOMAN 2
Nothing’s standing in my way.
No one’s holding me back.

MAN 2
College ended and there’s no one here to tell me
Not to hit the bars and rent some cars.
I’ll fuck around

WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 2
But then I’m gonna change the world.
It’s the generation twenty-something ascending.
We might be young, we might be poor,
But we know we deserve much more than what our parents have.

WOMAN 2
Who knows what that’ll be?

WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 2
But we’re ready to discover if there’s life after the Wii.
‘Cause as long as we’re still young and fresh and twenty-something,
We’re free.

WOMAN 1
This is it. This is what’s hot.

MAN 2
It’s your moment. It’s your decade.

WOMAN 1, MAN 2
But you’re only twenty-something ‘til you’re not.

WOMAN 2
Hurry up. Do it now.

WOMAN 1, WOMAN 2, MAN 2
If you don’t,
If you blink,
Then it’s over.

WOMAN 3
Show me something I can get behind
And I’m already there.

MAN 1
I’ve got time to kill until my life becomes more real.

WOMAN 3, MAN 1
The time is now

WOMAN 3
For wearing heels

MAN 1
For roommates

WOMAN 3
Drugs

MAN 1
For chance encounters.

ALL
Raise a glass
To the generation twenty-something, ascending.
We might be young, we might be poor
But we know we deserve much more

WOMEN, MAN 2
Than what our parents have.
More than some damn degree.
We’re the target demographic.
We’re the reason for TV.
We’re obsessively and definitely twenty-something. 

MAN 2
And free.

WOMEN
Don’t think about tomorrow. 

ALL
There’s enough to do today.
I’m young, smart, on my way.
This is my day.
You blinked.
You’re not twenty-something.

ALL (IN CANON)
This is it. This is what’s hot.
It’s your moment. It’s your decade.
But you’re only twenty-something ‘til you’re not.
Hurry up. Do it now.
If you don’t, if you blink, then it’s over.
Don’t think about tomorrow.
There’s enough to do today.
I’m young, smart, on my way.
This is my day.
You blinked.
You’re not twenty-something.

ALL (IN UNISON)
I’m young, smart, on my way.
This is my day.
You blinked.
You’re not twenty-something.
Raise a glass
To the generation twenty-something, ascending.

WOMAN 1
Oh.

ALL (WOMAN 1)
We might be young (Young)
We might be poor (Poor)
But we know (We know)
We deserve much more.

WOMEN 2 & 3
Than what our parents had.

ALL
Who knows what that’ll be?

MAN 2
When you’re twenty, you’re just starting.

MAN 1 (overlapping)
You’re just starting when you’re twenty-four.

MAN 1
You’re twenty-five.

WOMAN 1 AND MAN 2
You’ll never feel more perfect.

WOMAN 1
When you’re turning twenty-three.

WOMAN 3 (overlapping)
Life starts at twenty-three.

ALL
Because we’re ready and we’re waiting and we’re twenty-something.
And free. 

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Associated Artists

Caissie Levy
Morgan Weed
Helene Yorke
Josh Young
Dennis Moench
Nick Blaemire
Natalie Weiss
Julie Reiber