settle for less

when I was young I knew everything

I knew exactly what was happening

I knew the facts and figures, too

there was nothing that I couldn't do

that's how it was, as I recall

now I feel like I know nothing at all

now that I'm grown I see the mistakes

all the trouble I used to make

as well as the mistakes I make today

you'd think by now they'd have gone away

I don't know what I think I did

I try to keep my ignorance hid

          when I was young I was so smart

          I thought with my own brain and heart

          now I've learned to second guess

          but I don't want to settle for less

when I was young I knew a lot

there was meaning behind every thought

now I'm lucky to be thinking clear

that there must be somewhere out of here

where I can know what I used to know

I'm not looking for it, though

          when I was young I was so smart

          I thought with my own brain and heart

          now I've learned to second guess

          but I don't want to settle for less