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Salad Days Lyrics

As I’m getting older
Chip upon my shoulder
Rolling through life
To roll over and die

[scat singing]

Missing hippy Jon
Salad days are gone
Remembering things
Just to tell them so long

[scat singing]

Oh mama
Acting like my life’s already over
Oh dear
Act your age and try another year

Always feeling tired
Smiling when required
Write another year off
And kindly resign

[scat singing]

Salad days are gone
Missing hippy Jon
Remembering things
Just to tell them so long

[scat singing]

Oh mama
Acting like my life’s already over
Oh dear
Act your age and try another year [x2]
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Cover art for Salad Days lyrics by Mac DeMarco

Song is about growing up. The term "Salad days" comes from Shakespeare which is an idiom for the time of our life in which represent youth years, inexperience, enthusiasm, and innocence.

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Cover art for Salad Days lyrics by Mac DeMarco

Sucks to get old.

Adult life may be rewarding and fulfilling, but it'll never be as fun as it was during the salad days of your youth.