WITNESS - Twenty Years From Tomorrow lyrics

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I once dreamt of brown stone building with a front porch

Mandeville vine wound around the rungs

Summer dress on a bedroom floor

You pressed close enough to me to feel the breath in my lungs

And then we walk down Lyndale

Almost lockstep

Not too slow

But, just enough for progress

Time was wasted debating all of them odds and ends

Ain't no floating this river, baby, it got us to swim

Cause you were born in July

I was born December 19, 1980-Orwell

The years came and they went

But the chains of events

Sparked a change in the wind

And now we're sharing a doorbell?

We returned to the haven that we created

And later we laid in the shade with lemonade in the backyard

The sun faded and when I looked at the paper

It's twenty years in the future

I knew we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I once dreamt of a blonde haired girl beneath the bus stop

When we were both still young and eyes bright

Somebody told me that she lived around the corner

I was knocking on her door like, "Hey do you wanna ride bikes?"

But when the summers always seemed to smother under winter

My mother would make me bundle up with gloves to cover up my fingers

But she had none, when we were playing make believe

And when I tried to hold her hand

That's when she ran away from me

Damn

Well that was my first bee sting

Next few years tried to find her each spring

But these things rarely ever come to closure

Never got her new address before she left for Minnesota

I don't suppose you know her ,this is coincidence

But if it's what I think it is then this is just the start

The only difference is I never really knew her

‘Til twenty years in the future

But knew we would make it this far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I knew that we would make it that far

I once dreamt and the world wondered when I planned to wake