When I was a boy, I’d hear the old codgers
So stubborn and stuck in their ways
Swapping old stories from deep in the past
Complaining about what has changed
I’ll be an old man some day
Far off in the future, in a time far away
I’ll tell you about all the dues I have paid
When I am an old man some day
My father would tell me he had a hard life
He suggested I had it too easy
He might have been wrong, he might have been right
The world he grew up in made no sense to me
I’ll be an old man some day …
When I grew up I couldn’t google anything
We’d go down to the library to find the book we need
When we played out in the woods no one could find me
We didn’t carry cell phones, my mother’s yell would call me home
As the decades flash by, I try to resist
Repeating the words of my parents
But changes keep coming hit me like a fist
As traditions that comfort me are gone
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