Where Did All Those Years Go?

Verse 1

There was a record store on Main

Beside the old video place

We'd spend an hour with ten dollars

Just to hear the newest tape

Your brother's car would barely start

We pushed it halfway down the street

Then drove out past the water tower

With the warm air at our feet

Pre-Chorus

Back then every road looked endless

Every summer felt brand new

And every song that came through the speakers

Sounded like it knew us too

Chorus

Where did all those years go

Where did all our friends run to

The names we wrote in wet concrete

The things we swore we'd never lose

I still see you in that old town

Turning circles in the schoolyard blue

We thought the world was waiting for us

I think I was just waiting for you

Verse 2

We used to meet behind the diner

After everybody went home

You kept quarters for the payphone

Though you never called your own

There were fireworks in late July

Reflected in the reservoir

You said one day we'd leave together

We didn't know how close we were

Pre-Chorus

Back then every goodbye sounded

Like a promise to return

But some roads only go one way

And some bridges never burn

Chorus

Where did all those years go

Where did all our friends run to

The names we wrote in wet concrete

The things we swore we'd never lose

I still see you in that old town

Turning circles in the schoolyard blue

We thought the world was waiting for us

I think I was just waiting for you

Bridge

Now the record store is empty

And the payphone's been removed

The reservoir is fenced off

And the diner changed its name in June

But sometimes on the highway

When an old song finds its way through

For three minutes I'm seventeen

And the passenger seat belongs to you

Final Chorus

Where did all those years go

How did everything change so soon

The photographs are losing color

But I still remember you

Standing underneath the street sign

With your hair tied back the way you'd do

We thought the world was waiting for us

Maybe I was always waiting for you

Outro

There was a record store on Main

Beside the old video place

Sometimes I drive that way on purpose

Just to see what time erased