When you first begin your journey,   You're not sure of who you are   And the lessons that you're learning   They don't seem to take you 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 young was my intention   To stay free and unconfined   And so I held my pride above you   Oh, yes, what a fool was I   Holding back the words, "I love you,"   And letting out the word, "Goodbye," and      And I was wrong to let you go   I was a child and I did not know   About the love we both could have given   And now you're gone so far away   I hope I see you again one day   But if I don't, I hope I see you in heaven      Well, I was foolish in those younger days   To think they'd never end   But life confused me with its changing ways   And I just could not comprehend   All the magic of those moments   Lost, now light footprints in the sand   And while I'm standing here remembering   It's so hard to understand that      I was wrong to let you go   I was a child and I did not know   About the love we both could have given   And now you're gone so far away   I hope I see you again one day   But if I don't, I hope I see you in heaven      Now I'm sitting in this garden   In the middle of my day   And my memories fade and harden   As the years, they slip away   And I've been looking in my mirror   At the age around my eyes   Time is such an early laborer   Precision is its neighbor   They lay my body in the ground   But let my spirit touch the sky      And I was wrong to let you go   I was a child and I did not know   About the love we both could have given   And now you're gone so far away   I hope I see you again one day   But if I don't, I hope I see you in heaven   I hope I see you in heaven