Sixteen

Album: Life Changes (2017)
Charted: 42
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  • Take a left here boy, take it slow
    Don't get distracted by that radio
    I just rolled my eyes and I said, "Daddy, I know
    I'm fifteen, I ain't green like some ol' ten year old"

    What I wouldn't give to be sixteen, wild and free
    Cruisin' up and down Main in my F-150
    Roll the windows down, bass too loud from this burnt CD
    I'll be right where I wanna be when I'm sixteen, sixteen
    Sixteen, yeah

    Now that I can drive, finally feel alive, but I got this curfew
    Sneakin' in late, smelling like my girlfriend's perfume
    People talk about college and knowledge and that's alright
    But all I'm thinkin' 'bout is an unsupervised Saturday night

    What I wouldn't give to be eighteen, wild and free
    Buzzin' off a can of the Grizzly Wintergreen
    Lookin' old enough to pull off this fake ID
    I'll be right where I wanna be
    When I'm eighteen, eighteen
    Eighteen, yeah

    I'm old enough to smoke
    I'm old enough to vote
    But they turn me away when I go to the Cotton Eyed Joe
    They say the grass is always greener
    And I believe that's right
    But my friends are off to Vegas, they're leavin' me behind

    What I wouldn't give to be twenty one, wild and free
    Open up a cold one and drink it legally
    Chase a bunch of girls, go see the world
    Let my wild streak run
    I'll be right where I wanna be
    When I'm twenty one, twenty one
    Woah, when I'm twenty one
    Yeah, when I'm twenty one, it'll be alright
    Yeah, it'll be alright, when I'm twenty one

    Now I'm twenty five and I'm drinking wine with my wife at home
    Got a couple of dogs and a couple of songs on the radio
    And we sit around and we laugh about how we used to be
    When all we cared about was turning sixteen Writer/s: Joseph Michael Spargur, Sean Douglas, Thomas Rhett
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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