When you first begin your journey
You're not sure of who you are
And the lessons that you're learning
They don't seem take you far
And you just can't keep from stumbling
Though you try so hard to stand
And the truth can be so humbling
When it's just beyond your hand

As though youth were my invention
As though love lay undefined
To stay free was my intention
To stay young and unconfined
And so I held my pride above you
Oh yes, what a fool was I
Holding back those words "I love you"
And letting out that word goodbye

AND I WAS WRONG TO LET YOU GO
I WAS A CHILD AND I DID NOT KNOW
ABOUT THE LOVE THAT WE BOTH COULD HAVE GIVEN
AND NOW YOU'VE GONE SO FAR AWAY
I HOPE I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN SOMEDAY
BUT IF I DON'T, I HOPE I'LL SEE YOU IN HEAVEN

I was foolish in my younger days
To think they'd never end
Life confused me with its changing ways
And I could not comprehend
All the meaning in those moments
Now lost like footprints in the sand
And I'm standing here remembering
But it's so hard to understand

Now I'm sitting in this garden
In the middle of my days
And my memories drift and harden
As the years they slip away
And I've been looking in this mirror
At the age around my eyes
Time is such an earnest laborer
Precision is his neighbor
Lay my body in the ground
But let my spirit touch the sky