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Intro

You were seventeen the year your father died

And he was fifty-three when you were seventeen

In the museum where you laid your head to sleep

The artifacts were cold to comfort you

When you heard them fighting you hid in the apple tree

The branches broke their noise

And when your brother studied at the university

You were left alone to realize

That while you were growing older

He was busy growing older

too, bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum

too, bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum

In the summer when your father drove you to the river

And he would sing so loud

Soon to be kept silent when you climbed through barbed-wired fences

To get to the riverside

And while you were growing older

He was busy growing older

too, bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum

too, bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum

And in February you were running late one day

And out the door you ran

Leaving left unsaid the things you’d soon regret not telling

Never knowing this would be your last chance

And while you were growing older

He was busy growing older

And was it fair to blame the gi-

rl, And was it fair to make the child

choose, And when you stood next to the moun-ta-

in, Did you swear that you could hear him calling you?

bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum

bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum

I am twenty-two and you are fifty-three

And only blood can tell

That we are made up of strings and strands of DNA

Dancing waltzes in our cells

and while you are growing older

i am busy growing older

too, bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum

too, bah dah dum, da dah dah dah dum