Seal - It Was a Very Good Year lyrics

When I was seventeen it was a very good year
It was a very good year for small
Town girls and soft summer nights
We'd hide from the lights
On the village green when I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one it was a very good year
It was a very good year for city
Girls who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone when I was twenty-one

Then I was thirty-five it was
A very good year it was a very good
Year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We'd ride in limousines their
Chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five

But now the days grow short
I'm in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as
Vintage wine from fine old kegs
But from the brim to the dregs
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year