Jethro Tull 17 song lyrics

I remember when

We had a lot of things to do

Impressed by all the words we read

And the heroes that we knew

Climb on your your dream

A dream of our own making

To find a place that we could later lose

We were seventeen

And the cakeman was affecting you

Moving you to greater things

In a lesser way you had to prove

The clock struck summertime

You were going round in circles now

Wishing you were seventeen

At twenty-one, it was a long time gone

And now here you are

You're locked in your own excuse

The circle's getting smaller every day

You're busy planning the next fifty years

So stay the way you are

And keep your head down to the same old ground

Just paint your picture boy until you find

A closed circle's better than an open line

Yes stay the way you are

I got a circle that's the same as yours

It may be bigger, but I've more to lose

Who is the luckier man, me or you?