While I Was Away

Everything gets smaller each time that I look back Can I believe I used to have to reach somewhere to hold your hand Monsters in my bedroom closet shrink behind a crack Everything gets smaller each time that I look back Everything gets stronger as the years go by My heart learned how to emulate, used to make me cry My head learned how to face what I was too afraid to try Everything gets stronger as the years go by Time has a funny way of moving things along I'll keep on running like that fish, I'm okay Everyone got older, while I was away My brother finished high school, my mother's hair turned gray My sister started working and talking this far away Everyone got older, while I was away I got so much older while I was away