Finn Forte: We Were Too Young for This Lyrics
9 LOUNGES TEAM
8/14/2026
"We Were Too Young for This"
They didn’t mean to break us.
They just didn’t know.
They handed us glowing worlds
before we had words for our own.
Verse 1
They gave us screens
before they gave us boundaries.
Told us,
“Stay busy. Stay quiet. Stay safe.”
Never asked
what it cost.
They passed us worlds
too big for our minds,
too loud for our hearts,
too endless for a child still learning
how to breathe.
We learned to swipe
before we learned to speak.
We learned to scroll
before we learned to sit still.
And they looked proud,
because we were occupied.
Because silence
looked like peace.
Pre-Chorus
But silence is not peace
when it’s filled with a thousand borrowed voices.
Chorus
We were too young for this
ohhh we where too young
We were too young for this
ohhh we where too young
We were too young for this
ohhh we where too young
We were too young for this
and they didn’t know.
Verse 2
They thought
technology was the future.
They didn’t realise
it was becoming the parent.
It raised us
with endless choices
and no guidance.
It fed us dopamine
before we learned discipline.
Fed us strangers
before we learned trust.
Fed us perfection
before we learned self-worth.
Some of us grew up thinking
we weren’t enough
because we never looked like
the people we never knew.
And by the time they noticed
we were already ghosts
in our own lives.
Eyes open.
Hearts dim.
Attention shattered
into a thousand little windows.
Pre-Chorus
They didn’t break us on purpos
but they broke us all the same.
Final Chorus
We were too young for this
ohhh we where too young
We were too young for this
ohhh we where too young
