Thirty-nine And Holding

He’s out there somewhere every night   Where the music’s playing loud   He’s doing all those fifty’s steps   He’s in a 1980 crowd   Dim lights hide the mileage line The Clairol hides the gray   And he won’t mention anything   To give his old age away   Oh he’s thirty-nine and holding Holding everything he can   From seventeen to twenty-five   To prove he’s still a man   He’s holding to a candle   And it’s a-burning at both ends   He’s thirty-nine and holding   Holding everything he can   You can bet he’ll never see   Thirty-nine again He should have turned loose long ago   But still he a hanging it in   He still thinks that he’s the man   That he once used to be   He’s thirty-nine and holding   And acting twenty-three