I'd had a bad night
I mean a night so bad, I thought I was king of the world
And I drank 'til daylight
I mean I never stopped once until 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
Smiling on a park bench feeding the pigeons
And 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 nights like last night. "

And I'd rather be 75 and sunny
Than acting like I was 17 and freezing again
I'd rather be up early in the morning
Than up late at night again erasing memories
of where I've been
Or to be through at 52 someday stone-faced and bleary-eyed
You better believe I'm living for the moment
but my moment's growing bigger by and by

And I've got a best friend
She don't drink or smoke like I've been known to
She's got religion
She's a one-woman dynamo and lights up
every room she goes to
She says the light that's there won't go nowhere, no way
She don't spend every second smiling
but she's learning something exciting every day
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 nine dollar bottle of wine
Or to be thawed at 35, mama
stoned with her back to the wind
You better believe she is living
for the moment but her moment is the whole damn thing

And I see these spin kids
Double wide-eyed and rolling and rolling and tumbling
They're roaming in inches
Taken the high dive approach and screaming towards the water
Their hearts race a million miles
as they buy another smile from a jar
Their bodies are screaming for the water and
you know, I just hope they can make it that far

I hope they're 75 and sunny
Not 29 with a chance of flurries all the time
I hope we're all old as dirt, not new
as any twenty-five dollar ride that we try
Or to be thawed at 35, mama stoned
with our backs to the wind
You better believe I'm living for moment
but my moment son's the whole damn thing

And I say I'd rather be 75
Oh how nice, oh 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, going, going, gone
But I've I got a notion
That everything I learned coming 'round
And my devotion to the new thing
and the next thing and the hip thing is slowing down
And I've got a light in here won't go nowhere, no way
And I don't spend every second smiling and I ain't trying
But I'm excited for every day

'Cause I'd rather be 75 and sunny
Than 29 with a chance of showers all the time
I'd rather be old and in the way
than this year's new kid running for my life
Or to be through at 52 and someday stoned faced
and bleary-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 moment's growing bigger by and by
By and by
By and by