10,000 Maniacs - How You've Grown

      
 
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 "My, how you've grown."
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 I remember that phrase from my childhood days too. 
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 "Just wait and see."
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 I remember those words and how they chided me,
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 when patient was the hardest thing to be.
 
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 Because we can't make up for the time that we've lost,
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 I must let these memories provide. 
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 No little girl can stop her world to wait for me. 
 
 
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 I should have known.
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 At your age, in a string of days the year is gone.
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 But in that space of time, it takes so long.
 
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 Because we can't make up for the time that we've lost,
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 I must let these memories provide. 
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 No little girl can stop her world to wait for me. 
 
 
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 Every time we say goodbye
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 you're frozen in my mind as the child that you never will be,
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  you never will be again.
 
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 I'll never be 
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 Be more to you than a stranger could be. 
 
 
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 Every time we say goodbye
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 you're frozen in my mind as the child that you never will be,
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  you never will be again.
 
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 Every time we say goodbye
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 you're frozen in my mind as the child that you never will be,
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 will be again.