sweet yesterdays

all my sweet yesterdays

I can see them in my mind

all the people in my past

all the ones I've left behind

they return now and I smile

hoping they will stay a while

keeping me from being alone
coming back to take me home

lost inside of memory

I remember you back then

singing songs down at the beach

you were more than just a friend

when I heard you went away

there was nothing I could say

I could not pretend to know

tell me why you had to go

          you were falling

          and I could not see a thing

          you were falling

          and I could not see a thing

the mistakes that I have made

they come back to haunt me now

they overtake my thoughts

and I really don't know how

this is not the way it seems

they never visit in my dreams

except now they come into view

and all I really know is you

          you were falling

          and I could not see a thing

          you were falling

          and I could not see a thing

all my sweet yesterdays

I will never get my fill

I still have them in my mind

and I know I always will

and I know I always will