Pop Ballad - Watching The Years Fall

“Watching the Years Fall” is a quiet reflection on time, expectation, and becoming someone you never planned to be. The song looks back at youth with honesty, tracing the gap between who we thought we’d become and where life actually led us. It speaks of dreams that didn’t shatter but slowly changed shape, of plans held too tightly, and of learning—sometimes too late—that time moves on whether we’re ready or not. Rather than anger, the song carries acceptance: missing who you once were, while still choosing to keep walking forward.

Lyrics

When I was young
I thought I knew
Where every road
Was leading to

I made my plans
I held them tight
Believed the years
Would prove me right

But time kept moving
While I stood still

Now the nights feel longer than before
My own voice fades against these walls
I thought my life would be something more
But here I am
Watching the years fall

Faces fade
The days run fast
Promises
Left in the past

I chased a dream
That slipped away
It looked so close
Then changed its shape

And I keep asking
Where I went wrong

Now the nights just slowly wear me down
Every hope learned how to stall
I built my world on plans alone
And here I am
As the years fall

If I could speak
To who I was
I’d say, “Be kind
The road is long”

Some dreams don’t break
They just grow old
And some hearts learn
Too late, too slow

Now the silence answers when I call
All the things I thought I’d become
I don’t hate the dream at all
I just miss
Who I was

Time carried off what I once was…
And left me unsure where to go

I don’t know where the road may end…
But I’m walking it still


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