Lyrics

The Lost Years

You went off to school got a place of your own.
Stopped going to class. I think you thought you were alone.
And I was a busy man, busy with my own fears.

What about the lost years. The lost years.
You don’t get’em back. They just disappear.

They’re the lost years.

Shakespeare had’em. Jesus had’em too.
Everyone wants to know what occurred.
And why people turn out the way they do.
Lost in translation. Lost between the words.

You came back home as the same somebody else.
And I’ve always been a little lost inside myself.
And now we can laugh. Now that we are here.

Over the lost years, over the lost years.
You don’t get’em back. They just disappear.
They’re the lost years.

Shakespeare got a girl pregnant, and Jesus hit the road.
Sometimes destiny and fate hold hands.
There are some things we are not meant to know.
Let alone understand.

I’ll see you at Christmas. You are my son.
And I’m proud of the man that you’ve become.
And we’ll talk about the future that is so dear,
And not about the lost years.