I've been here for a few years, but looking back it seems forever has gone,
Flown like dust out the palm of ours hand, yet life still carries on
What seems liked yesterday, was five years ago, you're older yet you know no better,

Maybe in a few years, you'll read the written piece, that you call a letter,
The pressure you have from school, you hope will be released, wont, it'll still be there
Though you can't predict the future you know the truth and that's something you can't bear.

Chorus:
Look out for the future don't reach for the past
'Cause you can't, what's done is done

Look out for the new; it's time to face the truth
You're growing up childhood nearly gone


I'm tired of people telling us to grow up because we deserve our youth,
And you say you miss your younger days so stop pressuring us because there's nothing you can do
I'm sure when I'm 82 I'll moan about the youth and how they mistreat the world

Like grandparents do now, people looking down from clouds, the earth still twirled

Chorus:


Look out for the future don't reach for the past
'Cause you can't, what's done is done

Look out for the new; it's time to face the truth
You're growing up childhood nearly gone


Wipe the tears
From your eyes
There's no need to cry,

Reach for paradise
You're losing your youth
But face the truth

My immaturity
Will still have the best of me


Chorus:

Look out for the future don't reach for the past

'Cause you can't, what's done is done
Look out for the new; it's time to face the truth
You're growing up childhood nearly gone


Look out for the future don't reach for the past
'Cause you can't, what's done is done

Look out for the new; it's time to face the truth
You're growing up childhood nearly gone