Story Behind The Song

The story is in the description. The narrator of the song is contrasting where he feels as an adult with the fonder carefree memories of childhood. He poses the question of how to return to that state and the things that seem to be in the way.

Song Description

This song is about longing for a return to childhood perspectives and struggling to find that in the hectic day to day world of adulthood.

Lyrics

Shady dales, pure blue springs
Campfire tunes, runaway dreams
The city can’t keep my mind as ease tonight

I’m tossin, turnin in my sleep
The child still remembers
A quiet hopeful soft Missouri breeze

Things were never supposed to be this hard
Was gonna be kid forever
And then one day I turn around I'm grown
And I don’t know why, days keep passing by… without me….

The fallen oak where we would play
Now seems so, so far away
The memory is fadin in my mind

Now it’s bills that I have to pay
Hope for weekend getaways
And steal every moment I can find

Things were all supposed to be so right
I said my prayers every night
And then one day I wake up all alone
And I don’t know why, these days keep passing by… without me…

Do you think that I could turn back time and walk those dusty roads
Where as a child my friends and I would go
We could watch a sunset, jump the creek, we'd land in Zion, wash our feet
Of all the troubled paths we’d come to know
We could climb a mountain, touch the sky, paint pictures in the clouds
The future might be looming, but I’d sing this right out loud, I’d sing….

The dream will never die as long as I
Can come back to this moment
And as I’m fadin off to sleep I know
I don’t care why, the days keep passing by… without me…. without…. me