When You First Begin Your Journey, 
You're Not Sure of Who You Are 
And the Lessons That You're Learning 
They Don't Seem to Take You Far 
And You Just Can't Keep From Stumbling 
Though You Try So Hard to Stand 
And the Truth Can Be So Humbling 
When It's Just Beyond Your Hand

As Though Youth Were My Invention 
As Though Love Lay Undefined 
To Stay Young Was My Intention 
To Stay Free and Unconfined 
And So I Held My Pride Above You 
Oh, Yes, What a Fool Was I 
Holding Back the Words, "I Love You," 
And Letting Out the Word, "Goodbye," And

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I Was Wrong to Let You Go 
I Was a Child and I Did Not Know 
About the Love We Both Could Have Given 
And Now You're Gone So Far Away 
I Hope I See You Again One Day 
But If I Don't, I Hope I See You in Heaven

Well, I Was Foolish in Those Younger Days 
To Think They'd Never End 
But Life Confused Me With Its Changing Ways 
And I Just Could Not Comprehend 
All the Magic of Those Moments 
Lost, Now Light Footprints in the Sand 
And While I'm Standing Here Remembering 
It's So Hard to Understand That

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Now I'm Sitting in This Garden 
In the Middle of My Day 
And My Memories Fade and Harden 
As the Years, They Slip Away 
And I've Been Looking in My Mirror 
At the Age Around My Eyes 
Time Is Such An Early Laborer 
Precision Is Its Neighbor 
They Lay My Body in the Ground 
But Let My Spirit Touch the Sky

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I Hope I See You in Heaven