| Wasn’t I brushing the hair from your face
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| Wasn’t I just drying your tears and singing you sweet dreams at night
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| Seems like it was just yesterday
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| Suddenly you’re seventeen and it’s just 18 months 'til goodbye
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| I’d rather deny it
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| God knows I’d try if I could keep you here at home, but I know
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| Loving you is holding you
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| Lifting you up
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| Planting the seeds and then watching you grow
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| Even though it’s hard to do
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| It’s letting you fall
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| And giving you wings so you fly on your own
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| 'Cause part of loving you is letting you go
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| All of your life I’ve prepared you to leave
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| Now that little boy’s all grown up and it’s too late for changing my mind
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| But nobody ever warned me
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| That the years go too fast and there’s just no pressing rewind
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| 'Cause time is a liar, wish I could set the clock on fire
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| Turn it back to yesterday
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| Oh but it just keeps tickin' away
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| Loving you is holding you
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| Lifting you up
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| Planting the seeds and then watching you grow
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| Even though it’s hard to do
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| It’s letting you fall
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| And giving you wings so you fly on your own
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| Part of loving you is letting you go
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| No matter how I wanna make you stay
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| You were also born to fly away
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| Loving you is holding you
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| Lifting you up
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| Planting the seeds and then watching you grow
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| Even though it’s hard to do
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| It’s letting you fall
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| And giving you wings so you fly on your own
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| Part of loving you is letting you go
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| Letting you go |