Back through the years my mind goes wondering again
I go back to a time with blonde hair and a body thin
The seasons of youth when time had no meaning at all
And I thought I was invincible and ten feet tall
A child's paradise where life has no mortality rate
A place where a heart could never know hate
Those years seem to be another planet now
Sometimes I feel the need to get them back somehow
The fountain of youth is eluding my will
And it seems I spend more time just sitting still
Letting arthritis take a toll on my bones
And working to hard to pay off my loans
Not spending enough time at play and enjoying home
All of a sudden those years are gone
It's interesting how life seems simple and then
You wake up one day missing a friend
Time caught up with them and took them away
And you start thinking will I be called today
Wondering how I have eluded that call
I start to appreciate more the things I have saw
Then realizing that I have been so blessed
I'm able to live and get some rest
Time doesn't seem to be such an enemy then
As I remember those years with a grin
The days of youth have faded and they are gone
And the world's not the same now that I'm grown
But I wouldn't trade a day or go back a year
Because a new day of life can be so dear
If you could go back and change one thing
Who know's what heartache it could bring
The life you live can only change as you go
To change the past is impossible I know
The courage to change the things you can
And to embrace the things you can't
Is the definition of that of a saint
Which I ain't
I have lived those years and they were fun
But the future is mine until I'm done
With thoughts of the past sometimes remembered in tears
I'm afraid to trade one tomorrow for all those years
