[00:12.20]Someone said "Youth is wasted on the young"
[00:17.58]I spilled every last drop of time that summer in the sun
[00:23.61]My daddy had a Timex watch
[00:26.38]Cigarette in his hand and a mouthful of scotch
[00:31.07]Spinnin' me around like a tilt-a-whirl on his arm
[00:36.55]Houses need paint, winters bring snow
[00:39.46]Kids, come on in before your supper gets cold
[00:42.45]Collection plates and daddy's billfold
[00:45.36]And that's how it goes
[00:48.33]You live long enough, people get old
[01:04.03]I sat up right beside him in the cabin of that truck
[01:09.28]Goin' thirty miles-an-hour down a side road
[01:12.21]Talkin' 'bout the fish we caught
[01:15.13]And I'm older now than he was then
[01:18.16]If I could go back in time, I would in a second
[01:23.02]To his beat-up blue jeans and a t-shirt
[01:25.12]With the sleeves cut off
[01:28.53]Houses need paint, winters bring snow
[01:31.40]Kids growin' up and seekin' out the window
[01:34.52]Hittin' every small-town dirt road
[01:37.34]And that's how it goes
[01:40.25]You live long enough and people get old
[01:49.06]Yeah, people get old
[01:56.09]Daddy keeps busy in the aftenoons playin' cards by himself
[02:01.27]And he shouldn't be shovelin' that first snow
[02:04.39]But you know he won't take the help
[02:07.10]Full of pride and love
[02:09.08]He don't say too much but hell, he never did
[02:12.96]And you still think he's forty-five
[02:16.23]And he still thinks that you're a kid
[02:22.37]One day you'll find yourself sayin' the things that he said
[02:27.88]You'll be walkin' down the hallway,
[02:29.84]Turnin' off every light switch
[02:34.08]When you twirl your kids in your arms
[02:37.00]Before you know it, it won't take too long
[02:41.43]They'll be runnin' off makin' a life just like you did
[02:47.17]Houses need paint, winters bring snow
[02:50.04]Nothin' says "love" like a band of gold
[02:53.11]Babies grow up and houses get sold
[02:55.98]And that's how it goes
[02:59.00]Time is a thief, pain is a gift
[03:01.73]The past is the past, it is what it is
[03:04.95]Every line on your face tells a story somebody knows
[03:10.75]That's just how it goes
[03:13.71]You live long enough and the people you love get old