The Living Years Lyrics

The song The Living Years is performed by Alabama in the album named In the Mood: Love Songs in the year 2009 .



Every generation blames the one before
And all of their frustrations come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could've told him in the living years

Oh, crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts
Stilted conversations I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it he says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement in this present tense
We all talk a different language, talking in defense

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future it's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective on a different day
And if you don't give up and don't give in, you may just be okay

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning when my father pa*sed away
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

Say it loud, say it clear
Say it loud, say it clear
Say it loud, say it clear
Say it loud



Alabama - In the Mood: Love Songs

Apr 2009

  1. I'm in the Mood [#]
  2. The Living Years [#]
  3. When We Make Love
  4. Touch Me When We're Dancing
  5. Feels So Right
  6. How Do You Fall in Love
  7. Fallin' Again
  8. Lady Down on Love
  9. The Closer You Get
  10. If I Had You
  11. We Can't Love Like This Anymore
  12. Then Again
  13. Here We Are
  14. Face to Face
  15. Take Me Down
  16. In Pictures
  17. Close Enough to Perfect
  18. Forever's as Far as I'll Go
  19. Love in the First Degree
  20. There's No Way
  21. God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You
  22. Nothing Comes Close
  23. Once Upon a Lifetime

The Living Years