Seventeen and innocent   I wonder where all the years went   Lookin' back on a youth misspent   God, I miss those days      All the chances that we took   Always leaped and never looked   I tell you I could write a book   On all the hell we raised      Thought I was cool with my lucky stripes   I didn't start too many fights   But in those days I finished quite a few      Beat up cars and the cheapest wine   And any trouble we could find   The worst of days were the best of times   Lookin' back through life's rear view   And lookin' back, I miss my misspent youth      I'm no worse now for the wear   I've gotten' married and cut my hair   Me and her we're quite a pair   All my friends say      And speaking of old friends   We still talk now and then   'Cept now there's a few of them   You can only reach by prayer      We were cool with our lucky stripes   Didn't start too many fights   But in those days we finished quite a few      Beat up cars and the cheapest wine   And any trouble we could find   The worst of days were the best of times   Lookin' back through life's rear view   And lookin' back, I miss my misspent youth      Beat up cars and the cheapest wine   And any trouble we could find   The worst of days were the best of times   Lookin' back through life's rear view   And lookin' back, I miss my misspent youth      Lookin' back, I miss my misspent youth   I miss my misspent youth