They Don't Make Years Like They Used To

Doug Stone



I bet you can remember back when you were five or six

That year between each Christmas seemed like ten

And things that you looked forward to seemed so far away

And being grown was a million years back then



That summer between junior-high and high school took three years

Twenty more went by till you could drive

Oh they made them good in the old days, some would last forever

But the ones they're making now just don't survive



They just don't make years like they used to

Strange you turn around and then they're gone

Let's make the most of each moment together

Cause the years they're making now don't last that long



It seems like only yesterday we held our first born child

Today he's going off to school you know

And that favorite photograph of you and me that New Year's Eve

Was that lost year or fifteen years ago



When we were still just sweethearts the days would pass so slow

Tonight time found us snuggled up so close

All that time that just stood still oh so long ago

Is flying by now when you need it most



They just don't make years like they used to

Strange you turn around and then they're gone

Let's make the most of each moment together

Cause the years they're making now don't last that long



No the years they're making now don't last that long