We gathered that fall by the library steps, hiked the White Mountains and camped in the rain

Time on our side, hopes in the sky, sometimes I wish I was back there again

I'm goin' back, I long to be there, I'm goin' back to the yard for a day

I'm going back, the future behind me, wondrin' how twenty-five years slipped away

I searched through the red book, found an old flame, laughed at her musings on life in L.A.

A job and a family, carpools and cancer; the girl I once knew just so far away

I'm goin' back hoping to see her, I'm goin' back to the yard for a day

I'm going back, the future behind me, wondrin' how twenty five years slipped away.

Our folks they might see the sun going down, some may have trouble rememberin' our names

So we call the doctors and pay all the bills; I can't recall when everything changed.

I'm goin' back for a look at the past, I'm going back for day

I'm goin' back, the future behind me, wondrin' how twenty-five years slipped away

We can go back reminisce and pretend, we can go back to the yard for a time

See the same faces, tread the worn walkways, talk to old friends about hopes in the sky