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 to take you far
And you just can't keep from stumbling
Though you try so hard to stand
Well, 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 young was my intention
To stay free and unconfined S
o I held my pride above you
Oh yes, what a fool was I
Holding back the words, "I love you"
And letting out the word, "Good-bye."

Well, 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're 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
But life confused me with its changing ways
And I could not comprehend
All the magic of those moments
Now lost like footprints in the sand
While I'm sitting here remembering
But it's so hard to understand.

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're 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've been sitting in this garden
In the middle of my days
And my memories fade and harden
As the years they slip away
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 skies.

And I was wrong to let you go
I was a child and I could not know about the love
That we both could have given
And now you're 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
But if I don't I hope I
'll see you in Heaven
If I don't I hope
I'll see you in Heaven