17 Again

Oh Oh-oh-oh-oh, check Oh, yeah Oh-oh-oh-oh, yeah Back when I was seventeen, ay Back when I was seventeen, oh Back when I was seventeen I had a notion That I would see the whole world across the ocean My mum be working hard, but she get no promotion She'd be there every day for me, that's devotion We never had a chance to go to the Aussie Open We used to collect cans on them S.A. tokens She tried to fix my heart, but tragedy broke it I know I'm trying hard and destiny spoke Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Yah, yah And it's that Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Back when I was seventeen, yay I stopped trying to kill myself, oh-o-oh I turned my whole life around, oh-o-oh Positivity and health, yeah And I lost my identity And I came from housing trust to be been living in castles How's the serenity? Woo, we walk them hard roads, came same Yah, hoods as hilltop, young mixed-race baby Of the eighties, I mean nineties, somebody remind me, woo woo I'm a lover, not a fighter, only thing I wanna break Is these ceilings in my way, can't learn to fly in just a day My self love coulda been better but my ambitions would not frey My self love will not frey, don't hold that in, I gotta let it go Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Yah, yah And it's that Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Yah, oh-oh Uh, back when I was seventeen, though My life was all trouble I seeked guidance and love My mental was real struggle, oh-oh There's no help but yourself do what you love and live Spread peace and love and health to these kids From the orange-brick housing flats To the whole world across the map Got me thankful to be standing on an ancient country Yah, wo-o-oah And it's that Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Yah, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh And it's that Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Oh-oh-oh-oh And it's that Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Yah, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh And it's that Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ego Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ah Thank God I'm not seventeen, ay yah Thank God I'm not seventeen again, yah Thank God I'm not seventeen, oh-oh-oh-ah Thank God I'm not seventeen again