Youth should be saved for the last But it's wasted on the young and the fast But I wish I could go back in time to a faster time back then And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain I know thirty seems old to a child But to me it seems crazy and wild There's so many places that a young man ain't been And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain Wish I could be thirty a-gain Wish time didn't wrinkle my skin They say life starts at fifty, we've been lied to, my friend And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain Wish I could be thirty a-gain Wish time couldn't wrinkle my skin There's so many places that a young man ain't been And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain