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Years Lyrics

I went home for christmas
to the house that i grew up in
going back was something after all these years
i drove down monterey street
and felt a little sadness
when i turned left on laurel and the house appeared
and i snuck up to that rocking chair
where the winter sunlight slanted on the screened-in porch
and i stared out past the shade tree
that my laughing daddy planted on the day that i was born
And i let time go by so slow
and i made every moment last
and i thought about years
how they take so long
and they go so fast
Across the street the randol's oldest daughter must have come home
her two boys built a snowman by the backyard swings
i thought of old man randol and his christmas decorations
and how he used to leave them up till early spring
And i though of all the summers
that i paced that porch and swore i'd die of boredom there
and i thought of what i'd give to feel another summer linger
where a day feels like a year
And i let time go by so slow
and i made every moment last
and i thought about years
how they take so long
and they go so fast
Then the door flew open, and my mother's voice was laughing
as she called back to my daddy, "come look who's here"
and i thought about years
And i let time go by so slow
and i made every moment last
and i thought about years
how they take so long
and they go so fast

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Beth Nielsen Chapman (born on 11 September 1958 in Harlingen, Texas, USA) is an American singer-songwriter.

In 1976, Chapman played with a rock and pop group called "Harmony" in Montgomery, Alabama, effectively replacing Tommy Shaw who had just left to join Styx. She played acoustic guitar and piano as well as providing vocals for the group in a locally-popular bowling alley bar called Kegler's Kove and has returned to play in the area on an infrequent basis ever since.

Chapman has had several popular songs on the Adult-Contemporary charts in the 1990's, such as "I Keep Coming Back To You", "Walk My Way", "The Moment You Were Mine" and "All I Have". In 1993, she sang a popular duet with Paul Carrack, "In The Time It Takes". In early 2010 Chapman's "Back To Love" album was #1 on the UK itunes country charts.

Co-songwriter of Faith Hill's hit song, "This Kiss", many other singers have interpreted her songs: Trisha Yearwood ("Down On My Knees"), Martina McBride ("Happy Girl"), Willie Nelson (“Nothing I Can Do About it Now”), Tanya Tucker (“Strong Enough to Bend”), Lorrie Morgan (“Five Minutes”), Mary Chapin Carpenter (“Almost Home”), Bette Midler ("The Color of Roses") and others.

Bonnie Raitt has sung background vocals on several songs, including "Shake My Soul".

Chapman's husband Ernest Chapman died of cancer in 1994. In 2000, Beth experienced her own battle with breast cancer. The song "Sand And Water" was written after Ernest's death; Elton John performed this song during his 1997 World Tour.

Discography

* Hearing It First (1980)
* Beth Nielsen Chapman (1990)
* You Hold the Key (1993)
* Sand and Water (1997)
* Greatest Hits (1999)
* Deeper Still (2002)
* Hymns (2004)
* Look (2005)
* Prism (2007)
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