I had a bad night I mean not so bad I thought I was king of the world And I drank till daylight I mean I never stopped once til my hands finally fell And I fought my daytime self With a mighty dose of hey look at the night time me And I never do win that battle But I fight it over and over and over and over it seems And I saw an old man Smilin' on a park bench feedin' the pigeon's My head was spinning As my young body ached I wished for an old man's vision And I watched the way he moved Slow, serene, and lucky to be alive Thought to myself i'm never gonna make it that far With too many more nights like last night I'd rather be 75 and sunny Than acting like I'm 17 and freezing again I'd rather be up early in the morning Than up late at night again erasin' memory's of where I've been Or to be through at 52 someday stone faced and leery eyed You better believe I'm living for the moment But my moment's growin' bigger by and by And I've got a best friend She dont drink or smoke like I've been known too She's got religion She's a one women dynamo and lights up every room she goes too She says the light thats there wont go nowhere noway She don't spend every second smiling But she's learnin' something exciting everyday She'd rather be 75 and sunny Than 29 with a chance of showers all the time She'd rather be old as dirt than new as any 9 dollar bottle of wine Or to be through at 35 momma stoned with her back to the wind You better believe she's living for the moment But her moment is the whole damn thing I see these spin kids Double wide eye'd and rollin' and rollin' and tumbling And they're roaming in inches Taken the high dive approach and screamin' towards the water Their hearts race a million miles As they buy another smile from a jar Their bodies are screamin' for the water You know I just hope they make it that far I hope they're 75 and sunny Not 29 with a chance flurries all the time I hope we're all old as dirt And not new as every 25 dollar ride that we can try Or to be through 35 momma stoned with our backs to the wind You better believe I'm living for the moment But my moment sums up the whole damn thing And I say I'd rather be 75 Oh how nice, how easy for me to say I've never broken a bone in my life Let alone had my heart or a hip replaced And I keep this furious pace And I still feel so good and strong And I do get tempted for a taste, just a taste To keep me going, going, going, going, gone But I got a notion That everything I've learned has been coming around In my devotion to the new thing And the next thing and the hip thing is slowin' down And I got a life in here wont go nowhere noway And I don't spend every second smilin' But I'm excited for everyday Cause I'd rather be 75 and sunny Than 29 with a chance of showers all the time I'd rather be older and in the way Then this years new kid runnin' for my life Or to be through at 52 someday, stoned faced and leery eyed You better believe I'm living for the moment but my moment You better believe I'm living for the moment but these moments You better believe I'm living for the moment But my moments growin' bigger by and by, by and by