Price Of Getting Older

I wish that it was summer but summer from five years ago And I wish that I was younger but when I was young I wished that I was old Now I miss my mother still look for her face in the crowd Maybe in five years I'll wish I was where I am now I ain't as young as I was, but I'm still restless If this is growing up, it's not what I expected I'm caught in between, who I was and who I thought I'd be Was I too busy running, to ever look behind Did I get what I wanted, or let it pass me by Now I hold more on my shoulders Then I did when I was younger What I wouldn't give to look into those eyes I wish I could've told her The price of getting older I know the way by heart, these street signs that I've memorized But now there's flowers in the yard And faces in frames that I don't recognize Every time I go back my home seems to have changed I worry that it looks at me and it thinks just the same I ain't as young as I was, but I'm still restless If this is growing up, it's not what I expected I'm caught in between, who I was and who I thought I'd be Was I too busy running, to ever look behind Did I get what I wanted, or let it pass me by Now I hold more on my shoulders Then I did when I was younger What I wouldn't give to look into those eyes I wish I could've told her That's the price of getting older The field where I learned to drive a car Is now parking lots and restaurants If my life was a movie it's like they're cutting out the best parts I guess the places that made me Live only in my memory It's hard to smell the roses once the curtain closes The moment has passed The good and the bad How lucky am I just to feel this sad Take me back It all went too fast I ain't as young as I was, but I'm still restless If this is growing up, it's not what I expected I'm caught in between, who I was and who I hoped to be Was I too busy running, I never looked behind Did I get what I wanted, or let it pass me by Now I hold more on my shoulders Then I did when I was younger What I wouldn't give to look into those eyes I wish I could've told her The price of getting older