17 — текст песни (Jethro Tull)

I remember when we had a lot of things to do
Impressed by the word we read, and the heroes that we knew.

[???], a dream of our own making,
could late lose to whatever time would bring.

We were seventeen, and the [???]
[???], and a [???] to have to prove.

[???] supper time, you were going `round in circles now,
wishing you were 17, at 21 it was a long time.

And now here you are, you`re lost in your own excuse,
The circle`s getting smaller every day, [???] fifty years.

So stay the way you are, and keep your head down to the same old ground,
just paint your picture until you find the circle`s better than
an open line.

Yes stay the way you are, I got a circle just the same as yours,
It may be bigger but I`m going to lose. Oh, it`s the bloody
young man we all knew.