Thinking back to my world when I was young   I was a boy simple and true   I always dreamed that my life would one day change   I was a boy who wanted to fool the world      Now I'm living fast and I'm not looking back   And my crime is overdriving   I've weeded   I've cheated   I know I've mistreated my mind   Now it's time for harder days   Harder days      Looking back on my painful youth   We were boys oh what could we do?   Broke knuckles bleed   In our eyes we hide the pain   We were the boys who sought to rule the world      Now I'm living fast and I'm not looking back   And my crime is overdriving   I've weeded   I've cheated   I know I've mistreated my mind   Now it's time for harder days   Harder days      We were young   Where did those lost years go?   We were young   Where did our innocence go?   A violent youth couldn't last forever   So where did those lost years go   Your violent youth couldn't last forever   Where did those lost years go?      Now I'm living fast and I'm not looking back   And my crime is overdriving   I've weeded   I've cheated   I know I've mistreated my mind   Now it's time for harder days   Harder days