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| ====== Back When I Was Young ====== | ====== Back When I Was Young ====== | ||
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| Back when I was young\\ | Back when I was young\\ | ||
| Parts of me still hang\\ | Parts of me still hang\\ | ||
| A future path, undefined\\ | A future path, undefined\\ | ||
| - | While these parts of me are held behind\\ | + | Those parts still\\ |
| - | ;#; | + | frozen in time\\ |
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| - | To the fore\\ | + | Then brought to the fore\\ |
| To the here and now\\ | To the here and now\\ | ||
| Experienced again\\ | Experienced again\\ | ||
| Re-wound\\ | Re-wound\\ | ||
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| - | ;#; | + | Now shaken |
| - | Shaken | + | |
| Upset & confused\\ | Upset & confused\\ | ||
| The growing up again has just begun\\ | The growing up again has just begun\\ | ||
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| Are felt\\ | Are felt\\ | ||
| Then blow away\\ | Then blow away\\ | ||
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| Did we hold on to remember?\\ | Did we hold on to remember?\\ | ||
| To relinquish control?\\ | To relinquish control?\\ | ||
| To be safe and secure in a cruel world?\\ | To be safe and secure in a cruel world?\\ | ||
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| Now\\ | Now\\ | ||
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| Stepping out into sunshine\\ | Stepping out into sunshine\\ | ||
| Blue skies and change\\ | Blue skies and change\\ | ||
| - | These old eyes are renewed\\ | + | These old baby eyes are renewed\\ |
| - | and see a new world\\ | + | To see a new world\\ |
| Experienced again\\ | Experienced again\\ | ||
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| ... and release ...\\ | ... and release ...\\ | ||
| - | It's a passing phase\\ | + | |
| + | It' | ||
| As the young fills its space\\ | As the young fills its space\\ | ||
| On the inside\\ | On the inside\\ | ||
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| To grow and be whole\\ | To grow and be whole\\ | ||
| To be in the world\\ | To be in the world\\ | ||
| - | or not here at all\\ | + | And the fear is not here at all\\ |
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| **Matthew Hudson** | **Matthew Hudson** | ||
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