Lyrics:

1988
Writer: David Bellamy, Howard Bellamy

Just a back dirt boy from a flat land farm
In sunny Florida
I smile all year from ear to ear
Before I knew how things really were

And I started growin' older
And getting out on my own
Then, reality slowly slapped my face
'Bout things I had never known

Oh, I wish I had never learned, I used to live life with usc ease
I wish I had never learned those tricks up all those sleeves
I may be a little bit smarter, but I sure do believe
Things were a whole lot better when I was a little naive

As a teenager in the sixtys, I believed in love and peace
It seemed like the sole solution until we all got too extreme
Then the seventy were so uncertain as a new generation would
Now, these crazy eightys lead us into the ninties so confused

Oh, I wish I had never learned, I used to live life with usc ease
I wish I had never learned those tricks up all those sleeves
I may be a little bit smarter, but I sure do believe
Things were a whole lot better when I was a little naive

And we'd go sailing, our boats out on the pond
There was never any reason for alarm
I may be a little bit smarter, but I sure do believe
Things were a whole lot better when I was a little naive

Now, I believe
Things were a whole lot better when I was a little naive