We're all kicking, we're all screaming

We're all sleeping at the wheel

We're all California dreaming

Playing house and paying bills

We're all going through the motions

Just following the script

If we don't stop and smell the ocean

Boys, we might just miss our ship

Every last heart breaks when the summer snapshot fades

Every teenage kiss ends way too soon



It don't matter how long we're here

It's never gonna be long enough

It ain't about the amount of years

It's about the amount of love

It don't matter if you're eighteen, forty-five or ninety-one

We're all waiting for our moment in the sun

Everybody dies young

Oh yeah, everybody dies young



From the moment that we're born

Yeah, we start running out of sand

You can't bargain with the mirror

You can't ever fight the hands off

Time flies by like the 4th of July sky

When the morning sun high fives the moon



It don't matter how long we're here

It's never gonna be long enough

It ain't about the amount of years

It's about the amount of love

It don't matter if you're eighteen, forty-five or ninety-one

While we're here we're all having a little fun

'Cause everybody dies young

Oh yeah, everybody dies young



You only get one life, so you gotta live it

You only get one heart, so you better give it

You only get one life, so you gotta live it up

You only get one heart (one heart) 

So you gotta get to giving it up



It don't matter how long we're here

It's never gonna be long enough

It ain't about the amount of years

It's about the amount of love

It don't matter if you're eighteen, forty-five or ninety-one

No matter what we do, we're never done

Everybody dies young

Oh yeah, everybody dies young