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LOOK NOW (or the children are gone)

from LIKE A WORLD by Patrick Regan Band

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LOOK, NOW, OR THE CHILDREN ARE GONE

Time flies is what all of them said to me
Parents whose children had grown
Those first nights with the nest full of babies
Felt like an eternity 'til they had flown

Days inched like a worm in an apple tree
While they were learning to crawl
Look, now, and they’re not what they used to be
What you expect to see, not that at all

Like desperate sleepers who cling to their dreams
Though morning has come
We need to be shaken, and often it seems
Look, now, or the children are gone

No page from the book of your memory
Ever can bring back a day
Hear, now, it’s a hymn not an elegy
Life in a major key, children at play

If time is a wind, find a place in the lee
Each moment is one
A sheltering presence, a moment to see
Look, now, or the children are gone

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from LIKE A WORLD, released January 14, 2023
Copyright Patrick S. Regan (BMI)

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Patrick Regan Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

A songwriter and singer, I'm handy enough to be a one-man band, but lucky enough to rope in great collaborators. Never played for a living: living to play.

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