©Melanie Safka Schekeryk 2003
I tried to die young, really I tried,
but the voice deep inside would not let me succumb,
I laugh at the things that I’ve done,
but I tried to die young.
I took a plane through the dawn,
Threw myself on the tracks,
but the train didn’t come,
and I had to walk back,
I jumped into the whirlpool,
Thought I get sucked in
and I just kept spinning around
‘til I learned to swim.
I tried to die young, really I tried,
what did I try,
but the voice deep inside would not let me succumb,
I laugh at the things that I’ve done,
but I tried to die young.
My heart kept on breaking,
and the crack sought the edge
where the hand of a shadow
grabbed the hand in my head.
There where demons, I know them
they still come by,
but we’ve become friends,
my demons and I
I tried to die young, really I tried,
but the voice deep inside would not let me succumb,
I laugh at the things that I’ve done,
when I tried to die young.
I took a razor to the wrist of reality,
hell burned to my way taught futility.
I got a reason that it won’t go on forever,
but a reason to the heart
is a message undelivered
O, I tried to young
- Guitar Solo Beau -
Now I ‘m the old girl,
I never thought I’d become
does it get any better
asks the little girl in my song.
I’m still learning the answers
So I make up things, you see,
she laughs: You’re still the same
and you never kill me.
I tried to die young, really I tried,
but the voice deep inside would not let me succumb,
I laugh at the things that I’ve done.
I laugh at the things that I’ve done.
I laugh at the things that I’ve done,
when I tried to die young.
really I tried
I tried to die young
