Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years

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[00:00.00]The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
[00:29.98]Every generation
[00:34.78]Blames the one before
[00:39.69]And all of their frustrations
[00:44.27]Come beating on your door
[00:49.26]I know that I'm a prisoner
[00:50.99]To all my Father held so dear
[00:54.18]I know that I'm a hostage
[00:56.64]To all his hopes and fears
[00:58.54]I just wish I could have told him in the living years
[01:08.45]Crumpled bits of paper
[01:13.54]Filled with imperfect thought
[01:18.69]Stilted conversations
[01:23.17]I'm afraid that's all we've got
[01:28.56]You say you just don't see it
[01:31.01]He says it's perfect sense
[01:33.11]You just can't get agreement
[01:35.75]In this present tense
[01:37.95]We all talk a different language
[01:41.09]Talking in defense
[01:47.03]Say it loud say it clear
[01:57.10]You can listen as well as you hear
[02:06.86]It's too late when we die
[02:16.34]To admit we don't see eye to eye
[02:26.81]So we open up a quarrel
[02:31.75]Between the present and the past
[02:36.32]We only sacrifice the future
[02:41.56]It's the bitterness that lasts
[02:46.86]So don't yield to the fortunes
[02:49.46]You sometimes see as fate
[02:51.50]It may have a new perspective
[02:54.43]On a different date
[02:56.45]And if you don't give up and don't give in
[02:59.27]You may just be O K
[03:04.70]Say it loud say it clear
[03:15.25]You can listen as well as you hear
[03:24.80]It's too late when we die
[03:34.66]To admit we don't see eye to eye
[03:45.80]I wasn't there that morning
[03:50.23]When my Father passed away
[03:55.57]I didn't get to tell him
[04:00.11]All the things I had to say
[04:05.48]I think I caught his spirit
[04:07.79]Later that same year
[04:10.19]I'm sure I heard his echo
[04:12.55]In my baby's new born tears
[04:14.93]I just wish I could have told him in the living years
[04:23.17]Say it loud say it clear
[04:33.60]You can listen as well as you hear
[04:43.50]It's too late when we die
[04:53.27]To admit we don't see eye to eye