"16 Years" lyrics

"16 Years"

Sixteen years - without even a place to call my own,
But I'll dry my tears looking for a place to rest my bones.
All these years - but never changed the one that I have known.
And despite my fears - I'm sure that I can make it on my own.

Party drugs and limousines
Oh, mama, this is killing me.
I'm half the man I used to be.
Tequila, lust and gambling
Oh, mama, I need rescuing.
What sixteen years has done to me.

Sixteen years - burning every bridge that I have known.
Without you here, the world has gotten colder on my own.

Party drugs and limousines
Oh, mama, this is killing me.
I'm half the man I used to be.
Tequila, lust and gambling
Oh, mama, I need rescuing.
What sixteen years has done to me.

[2x]
There's nothing like it - I'm going away.
There's nothing like the feeling -
Of being alone on a New York street,
Gives everything some meaning.
There's nothing like being torn apart -
From a love you've known right from the start.
There's nothing like this feeling.

Party drugs and limousines
Oh, mama, this is killing me.
I'm half the man I used to be.
Tequila, lust and gambling
Oh, mama, I need rescuing.
What sixteen years has done to me.

It's what sixteen years has done to me.
It's what sixteen years has done to me.


Thanks to Chuck, Christina for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Christopher Michael Whitehall, Timothy Evan John, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin A. Guthrie, Simon Philip Raymonde, Lachlan West, Christopher Riley, Daniel Duque-perez