You never really seemed that far away I could always hear you say goodnight In my old bedroom But now the poster is off the wall And it's just you and them big halls And all that headroom Alone in your own nest Reaching out for rest So I'm singing you this lullaby And I know that you are beautiful But the years have not been good to you The years have not been good to you I forget your birthday every year Still I know you're getting older I am not younger now than you were then When I first laid my head upon your shoulder But now the worst in you gets the best of you with ease And it grows harder every holiday We are not the way we used to be But the years have not been good to me No the years have not been good to me I forget every call to say I love you Well I love you like no other But your children are not children anymore They need a little more friend And a little less mother You could just transmogrify While I'm singing you this lullaby I know you will be beautiful And the years my yet be good to you The years my yet be good to you Oh the years my yet be good to you