The Line - Make Do And Mend

I never thought it could be so hard

We knew the words but who knew they’d reach so far

Now we watch as the pages turn

And chapters end to tear a childhood apart

I never thought it could end this way

Growing up getting older every day

You’ll find these days are long but life is short

We can’t let it slip away

We stood like statues watching leaves blow by

Nineteen years have come and gone

We lost it in the blink of an eye

Still month by month the punches roll on us

Watching twenty summers pass

Feeling older all the time

Life can pass you by

We traded our wide eyes

For cold closed minds

And tongues as sharp as knives

What can the future hold

For kids with hearts like gold?

Turn on your TV set

Find out your youth’s been sold

We had it good those nights

We spent with our best friends

We worried less about where we were

And how it all would end

We turned our backs

On everything that could go wrong

All along, it was what we had

That kept us going strong

I thought it would be enough to forget our mistakes

But they don’t disappear when you look the other way

We spent so many years living our lives so carelessly

When did we change?