Years

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I went home for christmas 
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to the house that I grew up in 
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going back was something after all these years 
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I drove down monterey street 
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and felt a little sadness 
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when I turned left on laurel and the house appeared 
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and I snuck up to that rocking chair 
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where the winter sunlight slanted on the screened-in porch 
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and I stared out past the shade tree 
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that my laughing daddy planted on the day that I was born 


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And I let time go by so slow 
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and I made every moment last 
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and I thought about years 
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how they take so long 
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and they go so fast 

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Across the street the randol's oldest daughter must have come home 
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her two boys built a snowman by the backyard swings 
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I thought of old man randol and his christmas decorations 
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and how he used to leave them up till early spring 
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And I thought of all the summers 
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that I paced that porch and swore i'd die of boredom there 
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and I thought of what i'd give to feel another summer linger 
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where a day feels like a year 


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And I let time go by so slow 
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and I made every moment last 
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and I thought about years 
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how they take so long 
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and they go so fast 


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Then the door flew open, and my mother's voice was laughing 
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as she called back to my daddy, "come look who's here" 

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and I thought about years