Lyrics

YOUNG MAN BLUES
Lyrics & Music by Mose Allison
New Lyrics by Ed & Glenn, arrangement by GKB
How can a young man stay pure in the world these days? 
Why would a young man stay pure in the world anyway?  
You know in these new days  
A young man is a “real” man  If he looks around  
And allows his lust to feast  
And you know nowadays it’s the young man who’s got no dad, no family  
Young men cracked, broken, forgotten these days  
Just forgotten  
But everybody knows if a young man ain’t got no one  
He’ll go find one  
Or something to fill his need  
Someone or something  
You who got no one  
Nothing in this world to live for  
There’s One who’s been forgotten  
Waiting outside your door  
Oh, that’s the young man’s blues