Elle Stephens - 17 Lyrics

You wake up one day
And you're thirty years late
And you still can't find a way
Like your Grandma cleans the stains
Off a white t-shirt
Your skin these days
Is starting to age
And you can't keep up with all the things
Your mom puts on her wrinkle free face
Every night but it must work
Speaking of work I heard
I heard that's what grown ups do and it's cool
But I'm still having dreams that I'm in High School
And I can't recall the location
To my locker or it's combination
Then I wake up thinking bout how before covid I almost got famous
Now it's only my mom who has all my songs on her playlist
It's crazy oh how life changes
People live decades see generations and generations
Recycle trends but they say we're different
Well I think we're made in the same image you see
And no matter my age I still feel 17
You wake up one day living in your own place
One night you try to go make a baked potato in the microwave
And you set it on fire
Your dad always takes your trash on Friday's
Wonder if he feels the same going to High School football games
Even though he's retired
Speaking of tired I had aspired
Wrote several hundred songs and by now
I thought I'd be singing them on bigger stages into better crowds
When I can't play a cover at the bar they glare
Just walked past my stage at the state fair
Is anyone aware covers were originals somewhere
But nowadays originality and talent get you nowhere
It's crazy oh how life changes
People live decades see generations and generations
Recycle trends but they say we're different
Well I think we're made in the same image you see
And no matter my age I still feel 17
We all wanna grow up just to never really feel we did
And our biggest inspiration now is who we were as a kid
Back then we would wonder how old we would be when we'd figure it out
But life's not to figure life's just to live and that's a fact
And those who have it all together I figure just know how to act
It's crazy how life changes
People live decades see generations and generations
Recycle trends but they say we're different
Well I think we're made in the same image you see
And no matter my age I wanna be 17
No matter my age I still feel 17
No matter my age I still feel 17