You wake with the dawning of a bright Summer day
You slept late again this morning but that's okay
You call up your friends and ask them, what ya wanna do
Let's meet in the street by Jimmy's a little past two

Well you've got the time to spend
And there's always an ear to bend so why not
You're not wasting time, you're just unwinding.

But tell me
Where are you going son

Tell me
Where are you going young one

Where are you going to my son?

Now you've made it to your graduation, took twenty-one years
No time for celebration, gotta find a career
You're suddenly a busy man (such a busy man!) no time for your friends
You've got to get up in the morning so the partying ends

Well, you've gotta go to work you say
And then all of a sudden it's May
And your friends only seem to be in your way

As they ask you
Where are you going, son

Tell me
Where are you going young one

Where are you going to now son?

A couple of years have passed and things go as planned
You're making a little more brass you've got some time on your hands
But your friends have got wives busy lives the weekend arrives they're nowhere to be seen
So you buy yourself a couple of parrots but they tell you just what they think

So there's one thing that you can do
Wait til they've got an hour for you
Acquaintances renewed, have a brew with the crew so you can ask them

Just ask them
Where are you going, son

Tell me
Where are you going young one

Where are you going to now son?

Just ask them
Where are you going, son

Tell me
Where are you going young one

Where are you going to now son?

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