Story Behind The Song

Being younger than friends at 16 when everyone else is starting to drive and go to bars and feeling left behind

Song Description

Uptempo indie power pop lyrics are frustrated and angsty, but instrumental is upbeat, fast, modern pop with high energy and lightness

Lyrics

ONLY 16
BY AMY ELISE

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I used to joke about it as a child
But now I feel as though I've run a mile
Trying to keep up as they reach milestones
I'm sitting back here wishing I was grown
Grown up enough to be out there driving with them past ten

It's embarrassing asking for lifts
I guess them rest of them think that it fits
Cuz I'm always the last out the gate

I'm still only 16 I feel like I'm behind everyone else
And when my friends turn 18 I'll end up driving them all around
To all the clubs and bars that don't let me in
Being six months younger's feeling like a sin
I'm still only 16 and I've never felt it more than now

And Ive never even kissed a guy
Sometimes my friends will ask me why
But I know ive never had the confidence
I tell myself that its not a problem its
Up to me to decided where and when, but then

Its embarrassing asking for lifts
Cuz in the front is where their boyfriend sits
And it makes me feel like im missing out

I'm still only 16 I feel like I'm behind everyone else
And when my friends turn 18 I'll end up driving them all around
To all the clubs and bars that don't let me in
Being six months younger's feeling like a sin
I'm still only 16 and I've never felt it more than now

And I guess
Ill be pleased when im older
I guess
Its just a chip on my shoulder
But im allowed to feel that way
When I cant go because I cant drive because im not 17 yet.

I'm still only 16 I feel like I'm behind everyone else
And when my friends turn 18 I'll end up driving them all around
To all the clubs and bars that don't let me in
Being six months younger's feeling like a sin
I'm still only 16 and I've never felt it more than now