Years From Now Lyrics

I imagined her years from now

So many years I won't be around

I imagined her years from now

She had that same smile that lights up the world

The very same smile she had as a girl

I imagined her years from now

Jacket on, she turns her face

She radiates a wiser grace

Autumn breezes, lines of sorrow

Why this vision of tomorrow

I'm a photo, I'm a memory

I'm a book upon her shelf

Just a song, just a story

I'm a tale that she might tell

When she thinks of me

Will she smile

I imagined him years ago

So many years I hardly know

I imagined him years ago

Jacket off, he throws the ball

His older brother seems so tall

Just a boy, barely nine

When there's no such thing as time

Does he want to be a fireman

Or a pitcher for the Reds

There's no need to break it to him

He'll be an engineer instead

He lived a lifetime before I knew him

Just a boy in '38

He lived a lifetime before I knew him

And his hair had turned to grey

And now mine has too

Turned to grey

Imagine me years ago

I was 9 and I could throw

Will I get my years-from-now

Weary smile, body bows

I know it's come to sound cliché

The way our years, they fly away

But I was floored by what I saw that day

When I imagined her years from now

When I imagined her years from now