Stephin Merritt - When You're Young and in Love lyrics

You can teeter on the brink of a precipice
Ov'r an infinitely deep abyss
And somehow not even notice this
When you're young and in love
You can grow a little older every day
Watch your stupid life wasting away
Somehow everything is a-ok
When you're young and in love

But when you're not
The poisoned fangs of time
Become quite plain when you're not
It almost seems a crime not to go insane

You can whirl and twirl
On the world's carousel
Hurdle round and round and feel quite well
Never even knowing you're in hell
When you're young and in love
You can know the world has
Nothing left to give
Be condemned to die, content to live
And be happy if and only if
You're young and in love

But when you're not
The poisoned fangs of time
Become quite plain when you're not
It almost seems a crime not to go insane

You can teeter on the brink of a precipice
(a precipice)
Ov'r an infinitely deep abyss (a deep abyss)
And somehow not even notice this
When you're young and in love
You can grow a little older every day
(old, every day)
Watch your stupid life wasting away
(wasting away) somehow everything is a-ok
When you're young and in love