In his late teens   He felt so lost   He never told what he felt to anyone    He just took drugs and stayed indoors   Spared from the cancer-causing summer sun      At 21,he fell in love   With a brick wall and it set him back    The pain was great   His feelings' crushed   He smoked some hash to make it black      Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties      As he approached    His later years   The desperation took him by the throat      It choked him off   It choked him up    The feelings inside became so remote      He sized things up   He was dismayed   At how the years had flown by so fast      He had a future   He had a dream   But all he really wanted was to have a past      Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties      [instrumental break]      People admit   They've made mistakes   And hope that history will not repeat      They count their blessings   And pray for more   Hug their lovers and then go to sleep      He sleeps alone   He always has   And after all these years, it's not so bad      But there are mornings   He bolts awake   And he is overwhelmed by feeling sad      Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties   Long dark twenties