Intro (Fast finger picking guitar) Verse 1 When I was young, just a boy in the park, I lay on the grass and looked into the dark. Watching the stars, I would dream all alone, And wondered what life is when older we’ve grown. Decades went by, now the stories are told By lines on my face as the years all unfold. But these little laugh lines, they suit me so well, They cheer up my heart with the tales that they tell. I look at the years and I feel no regret, Achieved quite a lot, it’s the best life I get. I rewind the movie in black and in white, That started sixty years ago, in the light. Pre-Chorus Where did the time go, it’s flying so fast, Past, present, future, the young and the old, Child, teen, adult... as the story is told. Chorus And as the years keep on passing away, I move with the time, I am changing each day. And when I am old and my journey will end, My memories stay as a lifelong best friend. And when I look up to the sky up above, I see all the stars that I still deeply love. And if I reach one hundred years on this earth, The same stars will shine just as bright as at birth. Verse 2 Back in the seventies, colors were bright, Freshly painted and new, like my youth in the light. Mop-top haircuts, like the Beatles back then, Later long hair came around once again. Today all my youth is a ghost from the past, My journey through time made me age rather fast. But deep in my chest, yes, my heart's beating strong, Like a child of the seventies, right where I belong. Pre-Chorus Where did the time go, it’s flying so fast, Past, present, future, the young and the old, Child, teen, adult... as the story is told. Chorus And as the years keep on passing away, I move with the time, I am changing each day. And when I am old and my journey will end, My memories stay as a lifelong best friend. And when I look up to the sky up above, I see all the stars that I still deeply love. And if I reach one hundred years on this earth, The same stars will shine just as bright as at birth. Outro Today, tomorrow, the days yet to see..., Days, years and decades, whatever will be..., Am and remain a child..., inside of me.
