oh when we were seventeen   oh life was like a film   when we were seventeen   the sky was always tangerine   we ran through streets at night   under starlight   we ran through streets at night   when we were winning      oh wild was the world   and wild we burned   we were kings of the streets   not yet beaten by defeats   but now it's hard to see   through a fog of memories   but I remember   when we were winning      now my friends are unemployed   not needed in this world   pushed down by this town and always turned down   but in dreams at night   they can sometimes recall   when we were heroes   when we were winning      There was a girl that I loved   I had a photograph   It seems long ago   or was it yesterday?   She was a glimpse of life   a life that I missed   a chance I'd never got   when we were winning      I thought I saw here today   through a crowd in the street   I tried to run up to her   and my heart was beating fast   but she was already gone   she was lost in the crowd   but will I see her again   in the street or on a bus?   and can it be true   love never really dies   and is there still a chance   the fire never dies      I was out walking yesterday   I passed my old school   and I started to think back   to when I was a boy there   and all my classmates   they've got real jobs now   but me I'm walk along   the same streets were I was born      what have we done to our lives?   we could've been anything   we gave it all up for what?   is there still time?      and when I was growing up   my mom held a job   employed by the state   at the local school   she used to smell of cinamon   and she always used to sing   she let her hair down in spring   when we were winning      but she was worned out   she had to quit her job   and after 30 years of work   now shes got nothing   she says she hates her life   and her marriage has failed   but don't lay down and die   please be alive      oh it's in the air at night   there's a wind coming in   the day is dying   oh it's so beautiful   there's something happening somewhere   I take the bus into town   all else is nothing   and we are winning      soon I grow older   but god knows I haven't lived yet   before tonight's a memory   let's go out   I am still young      ahhhhh aaaaahh aaaaaah aaaaaaah   aaaaahhh aaaaah aaaaaaaaaah      life doesn't wait