97

When you′re sittin’ around at age 19
Talkin′ about where you wanna be in five years
Just five short years

It usually means where you’re gonna end up
Who you’ll be with, and will it be love?
Will you have yourself together better than you do right now?

That′s all fine
Yeah, that′s okay

But really, in the big grand scheme of things
And you start staring down the decades
Where you’re bound to end up someday
It really makes you ask some different questions
What they gonna say about me if I live to be 97?

I′ve been told my whole life
“Boy, you’ve got your grandpa′s eyes”
Never knew what that meant
‘Til I looked deep in ′em

The more I live, the more I discover
They were never talkin’ ‘bout color
It was all about me figuring out who I′m growing up to be

All that other stuff′s fine
Yeah, that’s okay

′Cause really in the big grand scheme of things
When you start staring down the decades
Where you’re bound to end up someday
It really makes you ask some different questions
What they gonna say about me if I live to be 97?

Will they say I was good? Will they say I was kind?
Will they say I never left a single friend behind?
Will they say I had honor through Hell or high water?
That I was loyal as a husband and a father?

Will they say I was brave that I stood my ground?
That I had compassion for the ones the world threw down?
I really wanna be that now
I really wanna be that now

All the other stuff′s fine
It’s okay

′Cause really in the big grand scheme of things
When you start staring down the decades
Where I’m bound to end up someday
It really makes you ask some different questions
What’ll they say about me?

If I live to be
Even half the man at the roots of this family tree?
What they gonna say about me?
Hope there′s no question
When I′m 97
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