Lyrics

After a while the years run together like a madras shirt
Can't recall which lovers hurt me and which ones I hurt
It's getting to be 16-hundred hours in the day of my life
And it seems the dreams of my youth were cut with a knife

But you're the reason I stay young, you're why I go on
I don't have to put on airs, I don't need affairs
You're the reason I stay glad that I've had the life I've had
You don't make me be nothin' that don't come naturally

And the dreams I once had have made a turnaround
Used to do things that now that just seem so unsound
Now nothin's done with a selfish undertone
Since you became my cornerstone

And you're the reason I stay young, you're why I go on
I don't have to put on airs, I don't need affairs
You're the reason I stay glad that I've had the life I've had
You don't make me be nothin' that don't come naturally

Things I used to do were obscene
Only thought of my well-being
I had no valentine
Did things to please self-centered thoughts of mine
But things have changed, been rearranged, and gotten better with time

And you're the reason I stay young, you're why I go on
I don't have to put on airs, I don't need affairs
And you're the reason I stay glad I've had the life I've had
You don't make me be nothin' that don't come naturally
Now nothin's done with a selfish undertone
Since you became my cornerstone
You became my cornerstone