the living years

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  doreen

  21-03-2003 13:54

  Ik ben op zoek naar de songtekst, the living years van Mike and the mechanics. wie kan mij er aan helpen?
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  bert/ songtekst-op-artiest

  21-03-2003 16:37

  veel plezier ermee

  Every generation

  Blames the one before

  And all of their frustrations

  Come beating on your door

  I know that I'm a prisoner

  To all my Father held so dear

  I know that I'm a hostage

  To all his hopes and fears

  I just wish I could have

  Told him in the living years

  Crumpled bits of paper

  Filled with imperfect thought

  Stilted conversations

  I'm afraid that's all we've got

  You say you just don't see it

  He says it's perfect sense

  You just can't get agreement

  In this present tense

  We all talk a different language

  Talking in defence

  * Say it loud,

  Say it clear

  You can listen as well as you hear

  It's too late when we die

  To admit we don't see eye to eye

  So we open up a quarrel

  Between the present and the past

  We only sacrifice the future

  It's the bitterness that lasts

  So don't yield to the fortunes

  You sometimes see as fate

  It may have a new perspective

  On a different day

  And if you don't give up,

  Snd don't give in

  You may just be O.K.

  I wasn't there that morning

  When my father passed away

  I didn't get to tell him

  All the things I had to say

  I think I caught his spirit

  Later that same year

  I'm sure I heard his echo

  In my baby's new born tears

  I just wish I could have

  Told him in the living years