See You When You're 40 lyrics

Song information

Artist: Dido
Album: Life For Rent

Lyrics

I've driven round in circles for three hours
It was bound to happen that I'd end up at yours
I temporarily forgot there's better days to come
I thought that I would give it just one more chance

Cos' I want, tonight, what I've been waiting for
But I found, tonight, what I'd been warned about

You think you are complicated
Deep mystery to all
Well it's taken me a while to see
You're not so special
All energy, no meaning
With a lot of words
So paper thin that one real feeling
Could knock you down

And I've seen, tonight, what I'd been warned about
I'm gonna leave, tonight, before I change my mind

So see you when you're forty
Lost and all alone
Being comforted by strangers
You'll never need to know
Not sad because you lost me
But sad because you thought it was cool
To be sad

You think misery will make you stand apart from the crowd
If you had walked past me today
I wouldn't have picked you out
I wouldn't have picked you out
Wouldn't have picked you out

Now i've seen tonight
How could I waste my time?
And i'll be on my way
And I won't be back

Cuz i've seen tonight
What i've been warned about
You're just a boy, not a man; and i'm not coming back
And i'm not coming back
What I've been warned about