[Verse 1]
We never learned how to slow down
Like all the boys in my hometown
We grew up on a come down
And we drank cheap cider at high tide
But he moved on to the white line
Using a bowl of his lifelines
[Pre-Chorus]
Picking fights, broken bones, never show
He won't let it out now
'Cause the hurts are too deep, it's too big
It's too heavy now
[Chorus]
We have and had a fake smile and cheap thrills
We're terrified to talk about ourselvеs
'Cause we don't want to be thе one percent
We're not build to last, we're just young men
Don't tell me he had too much to lose
Don't tell me he was taken way too soon
'Cause we don't want to be the one percent
We're not build to last, we're just young men
[Post-Chorus]
Yeah we're just young men
[Verse 2]
He lived Friday nights for his brothers
But he threw fists with his father
Guess he conquered his fear of the water
[Pre-Chorus]
Picking fights, broken bones, never show
He won't let it out now
'Cause some cuts are too deep, are too big
Are too heavy now
[Chorus]
We have and had a fake smile and cheap thrills
We're terrified to talk about ourselves
'Cause we don't want to be the one percent
We're not build to last, we're just young men
Don't tell me he had too much to lose
Don't tell me he was taken way too soon
'Cause we don't want to be the one percent
We're not build to last, we're just young men
[Outro]
Oh we're just young men
Oh
We're just young men
Oh
We're just young men
Oh
“Young Men" is a song centred around what it’s like to grow up as a man in a small town. I wrote this song after losing one of my oldest friends to suicide in late 2021. Losing him broke me and my whole group of friends, and I think I initially wrote this song to help us remember him and so that we...