**[Verse 1]**
I was seventeen with a head full of steam,
Had the world in my hands, or at least it seemed.
But the clock never stops, and the days turned to years,
Now I’m chasing the ghost of all I held dear.
**[Pre-Chorus]**
Oh, the roads that I took, oh, the signs I ignored,
Promises broken and love left unexplored.
Now the mirror just shows me a face I don’t know—
Where’s the fire? Where’d the young heart go?
**[Chorus]**
Oh, youth like a thief in the night,
Stole my chances and vanished from sight.
Love like a song left unsung,
Words in my throat when I was too young.
Now the echoes are all that remain—
Wanted youth, wasted, love washed away in the rain.
**[Verse 2]**
There was you in the glow of a late summer sky,
Laughing so free, never asking why.
But I hesitated, I let you slip through,
Now every love song just hums me the truth.
**[Pre-Chorus]**
Oh, the roads that I took, oh, the signs I ignored,
Promises broken and love left unexplored.
Now the mirror just shows me a face I don’t know—
Where’s the fire? Where’d the young heart go?
**[Chorus]**
Oh, youth like a thief in the night,
Stole my chances and vanished from sight.
Love like a song left unsung,
Words in my throat when I was too young.
Now the echoes are all that remain—
Wanted youth, wasted, love washed away in the rain.
**[Bridge]**
Maybe time’s just a lie we believe,
Maybe second chances wait down the street.
But the clock’s ticking loud in the back of my mind—
"Should’ve held on, should’ve tried..."
**[Outro]**
So here’s to the ones who let go too soon,
To the love that got lost ‘neath a worn-out moon.
May the next heart be brave, may the next soul see—
Youth ain’t endless, and love’s not free.
