Yesterday I Was Young

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Afternoon sun through the kitchen pane
Catches the dust in its slow refrain
I count the cracks along the wall
Each one a year I didn't call
My own reflection back from sleep
While promises began to seep
Into the floorboards, out of reach
Like summer days I couldn't keep

YESTERDAY I WAS TWENTY YEARS YOUNG!
Chasing shadows with my lungs full of songs
Now the mirror shows a stranger's hands
Holding receipts and grocery plans
While the woman who knew my name
Walks a different street today

I built a life on steady pay
On coffee steam and bills to pay
Forgot to ask what dreams she kept
Beneath the weight of all I swept
Under rugs we never turned
While fireplaces went unburned
And silence grew like ivy vines
Through rooms that once held dancing lines

YESTERDAY I WAS TWENTY YEARS YOUNG!
Chasing shadows with my lungs full of songs
Now the mirror shows a stranger's hands
Holding receipts and grocery plans
While the woman who knew my name
Walks a different street today

The clock ticks louder than it did
When time was something we could bid
Against the night with reckless bets
On futures we would both forget

YESTERDAY I WAS TWENTY YEARS YOUNG!
Chasing shadows with my lungs full of songs
Now the mirror shows a stranger's hands
Holding receipts and grocery plans
While the woman who knew my name
Walks a different street today

She walks a different street today...
Different street...
Different...