Lord, it's cold outside tonight
How I wish, Lord, the light should come
So cold outside
In my younger days
I almost lost my mind
In the summer of my days, swallowed anything I'd find
If I knew then what I know now
I would have left it all behind
Lord, I drank myself to sleep
And you know I woke up cryin'
I drugged myself to sleep
How I used to wake up cryin'
Only one thing that I'm sure ofó
Only grace kept me from dyin'
In my younger days
People looked at me
Like I was in my prime
Didn't know fact from fiction
Not a dollar from a dime
In my younger days
In my younger days
Like a bolt of lightnin'
Through my windowpane
I saw the writin' on my wall
And there I saw my name
In my younger days
I finally hit the ground
I saw the door to paradise, and how I cried out loud
In my younger days
In my younger days
I met loveóand it moved me
Gone from lost to bein' found