Misc Originals – Dan Young - I Thought I Had More Time (Guitar)

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She had 8 long weeks of summer, before the seventh grade

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Spent em swimming in the sunshine, and sleeping in the shade

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Now the trees go flyin’ past her, on that quiet ride back home

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And her daddy softly asks her, hey honey pie, what’s wrong

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And she looks out the window  -  at another year that’s leavin’ her behind

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And says I thought I had more time - before I’d take this ride

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Before it all was over - before I said goodbye

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I thought I had more days - to wish and waste away

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And then there’s all those trees I didn’t climb

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Cause I thought I had more time

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She sits in the backseat, clutching to his hand

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As he tries to find the words, to tell her why it has to end

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And the tears fall on his shoulder, and she begs him not to go

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And all he can do is hold her, cause he doesn’t really know

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And she looks up at her future - and says I can’t believe this has to die

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I thought I had more time - to feel you in my life

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To love your imperfections - to show you all of mine

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I thought you had more love - I thought I was enough

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But every time you said forever was a lie

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I thought I had more time

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The hospital is quiet, just the beeping of machines

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That keep her father breathing, and light the room in green

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And she looks down at the hands, laying withered at his side

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The hands that built her treehouse, and held her when she cried

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She sits there in the quiet - and holds on to those sleeping hands so tight

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I thought I had more time - to follow close behind you

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To watch and learn and listen - to memorize and mind you

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I thought that I had years - to fight away my fears

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To grow into somebody - who was ready for these tears

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I thought I had more time - I thought I had more time

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And it makes it so damn hard to say goodbye

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Cause I thought I had more time