From the recording Young & Beautiful

Lyrics

 
Step out of the water
Fogged up mirror
Wiped by hand
Smudges, blotches yet
 
I can see clearly now
Best not to look
Run the hot water
Mirror fogged up again but I can’t hide it
 
Clarity is overrated
I pray for some deception
 
A day doesn’t go by when I don’t dream
Of being Young & Beautiful
But then I realize that even when I was young
I wasn’t all that young or beautiful
Not young
Or beautiful
 
Blasting the radio
Talk shows, Muzak
Never me
Wanting, waiting for
 
I can see clearly now
Dirty elbows
Street smells all over
Bathe all I want but I can’t hide it
 
Purity is overrated
And subject to perception
 
A night doesn’t do by when I don’t dream
Of waking Young & Beautiful
There’s a little boy inside my dreams
That seems so sad
So lost and so Young & Beautiful
So young
And beautiful