Paradise, summer school and oceans blue,
Stealin' out, nights on the beach.
We lived our lives, as if the moment couldn't last,
Now those summer days slippin' out of reach.
Only seventeen, she lookin' good, she's a young man's dream,
There's a whole wide world a-waitin' if she wants it.
Packin' up a suitcase, the summer's nearly over
And her hometown seems so small,
Same old names and faces, she doesn't need them anymore
(Chorus) Lonely years, she wanna leave them behind,
Lonely years in the back of her mind,
Lonely lonely years.
It's all too late (all too late)
All too late (all too late)
If she could live them again, would she still do The same? I don't know *
She don't know-know-know.*
She's livin' in a fools paradise.
The lights have faded, the photographs have turned to brown,
The 'famous final scene', lies on the cutting-room floor.
Words have been wasted, you believed every single
Little white lie that they wrote,
The drug has been tasted,
It can only leave you wanting more and more.