Eighty-five, seventeennYoung boy sitting with his grandpanTalking on a porch swingnAnd he said, I better watch what I'm gonna donWell boy I could teach you a thing or two about lifenYou gotta live in the moment, kidnAny moment can give you another life to livenAnd yeah that’s la la la la lifenSimplified through my eyes, so I saynnTime flies, people dienAnd babies cry and that's part of lifenFriends go, wouldn't you knownWe all get old and that’s part of lifenSo live your life, yeahnnBack in the day I was a young boy too nWouldn't believe it, I was just like younAnd I stumbled around, yes I was so confusednYou gotta listen I've been in your shoesnMan you don't know what I'm going throughnWell boy I could teach you a thing or two about lifenTroubles weren't meant to harm you, kidnAny trouble could give you another life to livenAnd yeah that’s la la la la lifenSimplified through my eyes, so I saynnTime flies, people dienAnd babies cry and that's part of lifenFriends go, wouldn't you knownWe all get old and that’s part of lifenYeahnnThen he saidnSo what about me, and what does that meannOh my head is so down, is this part of lifenBecause I'm losing my lifenMy time flies...nnAnd that’s part of life