Billy Left Home Again Part 2

Billy

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If I could only make up

       All the time that was wasted

       Perhaps I’d not have been seen so blind

       Maybe I'd seen the tears that you’ve tasted

       When I lay down to dream

       You’re still my chubby 3 year old

       I guess I thought we had forever

       Before we both became this old

       You’re too big now to sit on my lap

       And much too busy to lie down for a nap

       Your voice so deep and you so tall

       As if you were never a child at all

       If for just one day I could turn back time

       To make up for a young mother’s folly

       I’d change the world you had to survive

       And see your careworn face turn jolly

       We get but one chance my only son

       To remember the love we each have to give

       You’ll understand for my forgetting sometimes

       I’ll be there for you now … to help you forgive