Baby, You Are Way Too Young — A symbolic illustrated adult musician leaving a Central California dance hall at dawn as two roads diverge through orchards

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Baby, You Are Way Too Young

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A thirty-three-year-old narrator says he believed a seventeen-year-old's claim to be older and now faces criminal consequences. He frames himself as a persecuted lover and imagines fleeing to Mexico. The lyric follows his self-justifying account and escape fantasy, leaving the age disparity and his refusal of responsibility plainly in view.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

Baby, You Are Way Too Young

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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Baby, you are way too young
To do what you done to me
You said that you were 21
You had a fake ID
Now I’m looking at hard time
In the penitentiary
Still can’t get you off my mind
What you have done to me?

How could you let me fall in love
With you or anyway
Why do I have to justify
What happened on that day
They say that you were 17
And I was 33
I fell in love with you
And you fell in love with me

CHORUS:
My Only Crime Is Loving You
Now what am I supposed to do
Stand and fight or walk away
Say goodnight on a brand new day
One more night of loving you
Black and white in my rearview
U-turn double yellow line
Lovin’ you is my only crime

Now I must go on the run
So come and go with me
Riding down to Mexico
To a village by the sea
I will play a song for you
A song for you and me
We will live together
And we’ll be forever free

May this long and lonely highway
Rise up to meet we 2
This lonesome dusty byway
That brings me back to you
Southbound for the borderline
Hallowed ground in the nick of time
One more rhythm, one more rhyme
Loving you is my only crime

If we find we change our mind
We had one hell of a time
I have no regrets
And you, I won’t forget
Way down in the jungle
In a garden by the sea
There’s a party starting
That was made for you and me
Let us dance together
Until the day is new
Oh, my Love, my one true Love
My Only Crime Is Loving You
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