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