WITNESS - The Best Years Of Your Life, Kid lyrics

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Last year, I was told by a gentleman<br />

You're looking at the best years of your life, kid<br />

Well, I guess they they're scheduled settle in<br />

Cause anything is better than a best like this<br />

Now the wise men whisper in their wisdom<br />

And they're telling me that "nothing lasts"<br />

But I would bet that these bridges have been burning<br />

Back before I ever struck a match (nothing lasts)<br />

I'm not betting man, but if I was?<br />

I would bet my bottom dollar that the world is flat<br />

They said I'm wrong, cause I'm looking at the surface<br />

And I'll never find a pearl like that<br />

I wish my mother would have took us back home<br />

When she threatened our behavior on the way to the beach<br />

This house once echoed with the sounds of laughter<br />

Till we shattered it's eyes and nailed boards to it's teeth<br />

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Last year I was told by a gentleman<br />

That trust can be a neighbor to regret and mistake<br />

We're just children in the garden of tomorrow<br />

Playing ding dong ditch with the heavenly gates<br />

When I was seven or eight<br />

I would wait for the winter months<br />

Making snow angels<br />

Till the wings made my fingers numb<br />

And then I'm twenty one, wishing I was twelve<br />

Feeling like I'm forty-seven, bored to death of this living hell<br />

Someday I'll bundle all the children up in layers<br />

For the February blizzard blowing over Pennsylvania<br />

And pray they never learn the lesson that I have tonight<br />

That the moments in the photographs are never coming back to life<br />

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But the sky ain't falling, my dear, it's changing colors</