I still live in the same little town I grew up in
Still see my parents
For lunch on the weekends
We sit around, just reminiscing
How not much has changed but everything’s different

On nights that I sleep
All of my dreams
Involve staying young
But I know that can’t be
There’s so much good that is yet to come
But it comes at the cost of all that once was

So I cry for my mother, I cry for my dad
I cry for the best friends that I’ve since lost touch with
I cry for what is
And I cry for what’s coming
Some days I just cry all the time because
Everything’s changing
The life that I knew
Is just disappearing into something new
And I pray every night there was more I could do
To slow down the time and keep things the way I knew

I still daydream of days when we’d daydream together
Look at the world, think it was forever
You can tell me that we were young and naive
But I prefer it to now, and the loss that I’ve seen

So I cry for my mother, I cry for my dad
I cry for the best friends that I’ve since lost touch with
I cry for what is
And I cry for what’s coming
Some days I just cry all the time because
Everything’s changing
The life that I knew
Is just disappearing into something new
And I pray every night there was more I could do
To slow down the time and keep things the way I knew

So I cry for my mother, I cry for my dad
I cry for the best friends that I’ve since lost touch with
I cry for what is
And I cry for what’s coming
Some days I just cry all the time because
Everything’s changing
The life that I knew
Is just disappearing into something new
And I pray every night there was more I could do
To slow down the time
And keep things the way I knew