Roxanne doesn't think she's pretty enough,
She sits staring up at the sky,
Dream about a life that could be,
She throws her diary into the sea,
It becomes a very long summer; the careless nights of fantasy are over,
When you see her she's white as a ghost,
She misses the sun on her face the most.

Young love - kiss it goodbye,
Young love - don't you cry,
Young love - it's no lie, but there is love before the day you die.

She feels her life has fallen apart,
I tried to tell her the world has a bullet-proof heart,
Sometimes the past is hard to escape when the future is bent out of shape,
It becomes a very long summer; the careless nights of fantasy are over,
When you see her she's white as a ghost,
She misses the sun on her face the most.

Young love - kiss it goodbye,
Young love - don't you cry,
Young love - it's no lie, there is love before the day you die, the day you die.

Roxanne doesn't think she's pretty enough,
She sits staring up at the sky,
She wears a cross around her neck,
Got the words at her fingertips,
At the church, she knelt to pray, "Sweet Lord Jesus, give me the strength",
She cried his name, yeah
She cried his name.

Young love - kiss it goodbye,
Young love - don't you cry,
Young love - it's no lie, there is love before the day you die,
Young love - kiss it goodbye,
Young love - don't you cry,
Young love - it's no lie, there is love before the day you die.