When you're sitting around at age nineteen Talking about where you wanna be In five years, just five short years It usually means where you're gonna end up Who you'll be with and will it be love Will you have yourself together better than you do right now That's all fine, yeah, that's okay But really in the big grand scheme of things When you start staring down the decades Where you're bound to end up someday It really makes you ask some different questions What they gonna say about me If I live to be Ninety-seven? I've been told my whole life Boy, you got your grandpa's eyes Never knew what that meant Till I looked deep in 'em The more I live the more I discover They were never talking about color It was all about me figuring out who I'm growing up to be All that other stuff's fine, yeah, that's okay 'Cause really in the big grand scheme of things When you start staring down the decades Where you're bound to end up someday It really makes you ask some different questions What they gonna say about me If I live to be Ninety-seven? Will they say I was good? Will they say I was kind? Will they say I never left a single friend behind? Will they say I had honor Through hell or high water? That I was loyal as a husband and a father? Will they say I was brave? That I stood my ground? That I had compassion for the ones the world threw down? I really wanna be that now, I really wanna be that now All other stuff is fine, it's okay 'Cause really in the big grand scheme of things When you start staring down the decades Where I'm bound to end up someday Really makes me ask some different questions What'll they say about me if I live to be Even half the man at the roots of this family tree What they gonna say about me? Hope there's no question When I'm Ninety-seven?