it's a secret and he tells no onebut his heart leaps like a beating drumthat's how it feels when you're young and in love

she's the reason he smiles all daylike a bird sings in a gilded cagethat's how it feels when you're young and in love

they promise to be faithful and truebut young love needs no excuselike the future it never endsyoung hearts never pretendthat's when you know it's for realthat's how it feels when you're young and in lovethat's how it feels when you're young and in love

four in the morning she creeps down the stairruns to the rendevous will he be therea hand on her shoulder she sighsand the fear is over nowit's over now

in the moonlight there's a boy and girlthey're the only people in the worldthat's how it feels when you're young and in love

but can't you just remember back in timewhen the whole world was yours and minemaybe a lifetime between then and nowthe feeling we shared was for realthat's how it feels when you're young and in lovethat's how it feels when you're young and in love