Lori McKenna – People Get Old (Guitar)

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Someone said "Youth is wasted on the young"

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I spilled every last drop of time that summer in the sun

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    My daddy had a Timex watch

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Cigarette in his hand and a mouthful of scotch

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Spinnin' me around like a tilt-a-whirl on his arm

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Houses need paint, winters bring snow

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Kids, come on in before your supper gets cold

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Collection plates and daddy's billfold

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And that's how it goes

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You live long enough, people get old

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I sat up right beside him in the cab of that truck

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Goin' thirty miles-an-hour down a side road talkin' 'bout the fish we caught

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And I'm older now than he was then

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If I could go back in time, I would in a second

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To his beat-up blue jeans and a t-shirt with the sleeves cut off

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Houses need paint, winters bring snow

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Kids growin' up and sneakin' out the window

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Hittin' every small-town dirt road

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And that's how it goes

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You live long enough, and people get old

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Yeah, people get old

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      Daddy keeps busy in the aftenoons playin' cards by himself

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And he shouldn't be shovelin' that first snow, but you know he won't take the help

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Full of pride and love, he don't say too much but hell, he never did

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And you still think he's forty-five and he still thinks that you're a kid

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One day you'll find yourself sayin' the things that he said

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You'll be walkin' down the hallway, turnin' off every light switch

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When you twirl your kids in your arms

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Before you know it, it won't take too long

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They'll be runnin' off makin' a life just like you did

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Houses need paint, winters bring snow

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Nothin' says "love" like a band of gold

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Babies grow up and houses get sold

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And that's how it goes

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Time is a thief, pain is a gift

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The past is the past, it is what it is

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Every line on your face tells a story somebody knows

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That's just how it goes

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You live long enough and the people you love... get old