Smell of high-school hallways Lake on flush young skin Stumbled words and hands at night Soft, steady chagrin This is, this is your young desire Oh, it's wild and it's sweet and pathetic And somehow you never forget it She left with Halley's Comet Was nineteen eighty-six And people said Now buck up, kid You're too young You love too quick So I burned Carl Sagan's Cosmos And the lake kind of lost its feel Now the day she left doesn't stand out much But is that true? Am I losing touch? Oh this is, this is your young desire Oh, it's wild and it's sweet and pathetic And somehow you never forget it Oh this is, this is your young desire Oh, it's wild and it's sweet and pathetic And somehow you never forget it Walking lone home today On a corner swear she's there And stars don't fall anymore for me Or not in a way that compares So I step out into traffic The doctor'll ask me why And bandaged up, with a blush, I'll sigh Cause I can't get out of bed sometimes Oh, this is, this is your young desire Oh, it's wild and it's sweet and pathetic And somehow you never forget it Oh, this is, this is your young desire Oh, it's wild and it's sweet and pathetic And somehow you never forget it Oh, this is, this is your young desire Oh, it's wild and it's sweet and pathetic And somehow you never forget it Oh, this is, this is your young desire Oh, it's wild and it's sweet and pathetic And somehow you never forget it