Outstretched Arms Lyrics

When you were born lit the room up like Edison

Wrote you a poem it was nothing like Tennyson

Child, yesterdays

Tell me where have they gone?

You climbed up on tables always laughing and yelling

Took a pen to the sofa with a curious spelling

My Child, yesterdays

Tell me where have they gone?

Time's not absolute

It goes faster for me than you

And the days keep on slipping through

My outstretched arms

I read you bedtime stories but I fell asleep first

You snuck out and licked all the frosting off the cake

My Child, yesterdays

Tell me where did they go?

Love is absolute

It gives everything for you

And the years keep on slipping through

My outstretched arms

One day you'll be grown, I'll be weathered and worn

You'll still shine like the day, like the day you were born

You'll say "dad, yesterdays

Tell me where did they go?"

Remember that summer eve

When you stumbled and skinned your knees?

You turned and you reached for me

For my outstretched arms

All of those memories

Float away on that summer breeze

When you stumble remember me

With my outstretched arms