IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW

 If you didn't know.

 

If you didn't know how old you were

How old would you be?

If you didn't know you shouldn't

Would you climb a tree?

Would you skip along a street?

Blow bubbles in the air?

And if somebody laughed at you

Would you really care?

 

If you weren't told how grownups act,

How would you behave?

If you weren't told just what to fear,

Would you be more brave?

Would you skateboard down a hill?

Go surfing in the sea?
And if you could feel young again

Would you still love me?

 

Age shouldn't be a reason

For letting life grow cold.

There shouldn't be a season

For being young or old.

Eighty should be just like six.

Fifteen like forty-five.

Every year a cause to cheer,

To be foolish and alive.

 

Wouldn't you get more from life

Without age as a meter?

Without candles on the cake,

Wouldn't each slice be sweeter?
We could share  a tree house

And blow bubbles that would go

Toward the sky before they fell

On sad grownups below.....

If we didn't know how old we are

If we didn't,

Know.