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I returned to my home town yesterday

 and my life before my eyes came flashing back

Everything was changed and the faces look so strange

sometimes I wish that I was young again

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And if I close my eyes think on back to happy times

I could be 16 years old for awhile

Honest friendships, high school dances innocence short romances

Life was simple but it sure was good somehow

Then we drove to an old beach last night

 a place we used to go not long ago

Walking barefoot in the sand

I saw to people holding hands

 Falling in love for their first time

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Now I'm older I guess a little wiser

experience is added to my name

But I can't help but feel that I traded apart

Who I am along the way

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