you got a photograph memory
of a storybook romance
with competition like that
the real world don't stand a chance
you got a photograph picture
of a girl you used to know
she's not your little girl no more
you have to let her go

you can live in the future
you can live in the past
you can throw away a lifetime
just to make the moment last
tomorrow never comes
even if you wait a thousand years
your heart's a million miles away
but you are here

i know you spend every night
just waiting by the phone
for the call that says you're going somewhere
and you're never coming home
things will be so different
no one will tell you what to do
but there's nowhere else to lay the blame 
when everything's up to you

you can live in the future
you can live in the past
you can throw away a lifetime
just to make the moment last
tomorrow never comes
even if you wait a thousand years
your heart's a million miles away
but you are here

you can live in the future
you can live in the past
you can throw away a lifetime
just to make the moment last
tomorrow never comes
even if you wait a thousand years
your heart might be a million miles away
but you are here


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