16

by Green Day

From the album: 39 / Smooth

Track 7 of 23 on 39 / Smooth (1990).

Duration: 3:22

39 / Smooth cover art

Lyrics for 16

Every night I dream the same dream Of getting older and older all the time I ask you now, what does this mean? Are these problems just in my mind? Things are easy when you're a child But now these pressures have dropped on my head The length I've gone are just long miles Would they be shorter if I were dead? Every time I look in my past I always wish I was there I wish my youth would forever last Why are these times so unfair? Look at my friends and see what they've done Ask myself why they've had to change? I like them better when they were young Now all these times are rearranged I look down and stand there and cry Nothing ever will be the same The sun is rising, now I ask why? The clouds now fall and here comes the rain Every time I look in my past I always wish I was there I wish my youth would forever last Why are these times so unfair? Every night I dream the same dream Of getting older and older all the time I ask you now, what does this mean? Are these problems just in my mind? Things are easy when you're a child But now these pressures have dropped on my head The length I've gone are just long miles Would they be shorter if I were dead? Every time I look in my past I always wish I was there I wish my youth would forever last Why are these times so unfair?

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  1. At the Library
  2. Don't Leave Me
  3. I Was There
  4. Disappearing Boy
  5. Green Day
  6. Going to Pasalacqua
  7. 16
  8. Road to Acceptance
  9. Rest
  10. The Judge's Daughter
  11. Paper Lanterns
  12. Why Do You Want Him?
  13. 409 in Your Coffeemaker
  14. Knowledge
  15. 1,000 Hours
  16. Dry Ice
  17. Only of You
  18. The One I Want
  19. I Want to Be Alone
  20. Paper Lanterns - Live at WMMR, 1991
  21. Words I Might Have Ate - Live from WMMR, 1991
  22. One for the Razorbacks - Live at WMMR, Minneapolis, MN, 4/18/91
  23. Studio Banter - Interview