I look at places both old and new
The faces have change
The places not the same
But in my mind’s eye
It’s all the same
I close myself in
And the doubt out
Then I go and drift about
Remembering old flames
Loves lost and won
Friends of youth
Faces still young
So full of youth
With lives to be lived
And summers to be filled
I go to this place
Inside my mind
Sometime even
When there is no time
But as the years have left me here
With not much more than fear
I go to this place in my mind’s eye
And its ear
And there we all live
And never die
A lollypop world some will say
And make believe
A child’s play
It’s not today
That’s when I ask
Is it really gone
And in the past
To be left behind
A good memory
Is more than kind
And thank God
The child still plays
Inside my mind
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