It's not where I belong Windows in rooms that I'm passin' through Little boy, six years old A little too used to bein' alone Another new mom and dad, another school Another house that'll never be home When people ask him how he likes this place He looks

You're gonna be mine, little girl, You've been through 18 years of pain. I'm gonna give you a love, child, You've been mistreated, little girl, But I swear, I swear it'll be outgrown. Even if I can't have you by my side. You won't feel bad again.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say You know I'm crying, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh What can I do, girl, to get through to you Standing here baptized in all my tears, baby through the years You never ever worry and you never shed a tear

To the moon and back To the ends of the Earth Through the dirt and the gravel Through the years and the miles Every road that you traveled Through the tears and the smiles Through the clear and the muddy Through the thick and thin The quiet nights, the

That great symphonic theme, That's Stella by starlight, And not a dream, She's everything on this earth to me. The song a robin sings, Through years of endless springs, The murmur of a brook at evening tides. That ripples through a nook where two lovers

How come, we don't even talk no more And you don't even call no more We don't barely keep in touch at all And I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more And I heard it through the grapevine We even been beefin' now After all the years we been

Through the years You've never let me down The sweetest days I've found I've found with you Right here with you It's better everyday You've kissed my tears away As long as it's okay I'll stay with you

'Cause every pane of glass that your pebbles tap Negates the pains I went through to avoid you And every little pat on the shoulder for attention Fails to mention I still hate you But there's a light on in Chicago And I know I should be home All the

Like desperados waitin' for a train I'd play the Red River Valley And he'd sit out in the kitchen and cry And run his fingers through seventy years of livin' And wonder, "Lord, has ever' well I've drilled run dry?" We were friends, me and this old man

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say You know I'm crying, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh What can I do, girl, to get through to you Standing here baptized in all my tears, baby through the years You never ever worry and you never shed a tear