I Have Given Up Lyrics

I always wonder if I'll figure it out

By the time I have decided

To give it up

And then I'm thinking that

They'll play my song

In a local bar after

I have given up

And I've settled down

With a new love

And I'll turn to my lover

And I'll say

"this song they're playing, this one's mine"

And I wrote it when I was nineteen

When I had friends and I had lovers

And people who I thought that I

Would have in my life

'Til I was old and I was bitter and I was blue

But that wasn't true

I'm giving up on love

Giving up on trying

Giving up trying to find

Find the people that they want me to talk to

Because they say they understand

But they don't understand

And I don't want to be an old man

I always wonder if I'll figure life out

When I'm twenty-five

And my dreams have died

And that's all because

Something didn't feel right

And then I'm thinking that

I'll figure it all out

In a job that I hate

With a song that I love

But that seems unjust

So I'll turn to my mother

And I'll say

"This life I'm living, this one's mine"

And I'll turn

To my brother and my sister

And my nephew and niece

Now that we're all alone

I don't want to be thirty-five

With no more love in my life

When I have given up

'Cause I am giving up

Giving up on love

Giving up on trying

Giving up trying to find

Find the people that they

Want me to talk to

Because they say they understand

But they don't understand

And I don't want to be an old man

I don't want to be an old man

He never got to be an old man

I don't want to be an old man

I'm giving up

I'm giving up

I'm giving up