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I was a dreamer when I was young
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Lyin' on the grass, starin' at the sky
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I never felt the time was moving on
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I thought it would stay the same
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For all my life
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Playin' games under Christmas lights
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When the world was warm and bright
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But that time just seemed to fly
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In the blinking of an eye
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I was a joker when I was at school
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Smokin' grass, laughing and gettin' high
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I never cared about nothin' at all
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Em
I thought it would stay the same
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For all my life
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Kissing girls under summer nights
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When the world was big and bright
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But that time just passed me by
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In the blinking of an eye
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I left home at seventeen
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Tried to get into the music scene
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It wore me down like an old machine
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I learned how to work and forgot how to dream, oh
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Yea-ea-eah
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I fell in love at twenty-one
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Down in the grass, getting lost in her wide eyes
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Wouldn't have traded it for anyone
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I thought it would stay the same
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For all my life
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But I was just too young to know
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I let her down and let her go
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That time taught me how to cry
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In the blinking of an eye
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In the blinking of an eye
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I hit the road at twenty-three
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Stood in the grass, singing songs for passers-by
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Foot-loose and fancy-free
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I thought it would stay the same
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For all my life
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Oh and practice taught me how to preach
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I touched the world, so out of reach
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And that time, it lived and died
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In the blinking of an eye
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It all changed at twenty-nine
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My boat came in and the stars aligned
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I watched a simple song of mine
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Travel the world in the blink of an eye, yeah
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Yea-ea-eah
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