When you first begin your journey, you're not sure just 
who you are
And the lessons that you're learning, they don't take 
you very far.
And you just can't keep from stumbling, though you try 
so hard to stand,
And the truth can be so humbling when it's just beyond 
your hand.

As though youth were my invention, as though love lay 
undefined,
To stay free was my intention, to stay young and 
unconfined.
And so I held my pride above you, oh, yes, what a fool 
was I,
Holding back those words "I love you," and letting out 
that word goodbye.

I was wrong to let you go
I was a child and I did not know
About the love that we both could have given
And now you've gone so far away,
I hope I'll see you again someday
But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven.

I was foolish in my younger days to think they'd never 
end
Life confused me with its changing ways, and I could 
All the meaning in those moments now lost like 
footprints in the sand
And I'm standing here remembering, but it's so hard to 
understand.

I was wrong to let you go
I was a child and I did not know
About the love that we both could have given
And now you've gone so far away,
I hope I'll see you again someday
But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven.

Now I'm sitting in this garden in the middle of my days
And my memories drift and harden as the years they slip 
away,
And I've been looking in this mirror at the age around 
my eyes
Time is such an earnest laborer, precision is his 
neighbor.
Lay my body in the ground, but let my spirit touch the 
sky.

I was wrong to let you go
I was a child and I did not know
About the love that we both could have given
And now you've gone so far away,
I hope I'll see you again someday
But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven.