Before Growing Old

When you are old and gone away

Will you remember me today

With youth still in my eyes

And wild hair across my face?

When you are old and gone from me

Will you remember how I speak

With that confidence of children

And that noble lack of sleep?

When you're old and someone new

Will you think of how my shoes

All tattered, drag themselves beside you

As we're walking home from school?

Been making myself

So sick with the truth

But I realize now

Our lovе is made of youth

When we grow up

I will brеak my promises and you'll fall out of love

We will not grow old together

When you're aged and away

Will you think of me the day

That we skipped a day of classes

To act like lovers in the rain?

And when you're taken by the years

Will you recall me thus my dear

A skinny figure at your doorway

Legs like spindles, stiff with fear?

And when we've up and grown apart

Will you remember how the art

Used to fall out of my fingers

Into sketchbooks in the park?

And I'm aging my soul

I'm so high-strung

'Cause I realize now

This kind of love is for the young

When we grow up

I will break my promises, and you'll fall out of love

We will not grow old together

And now I'm old and gone away

I still remember how your face

Shone with youth and love and confidence

That you would always stay