Natalie Merchant - How You've Grown lyrics

[Verse 1:] "My, how you've grown" I remember that phrase From my childhood days too "Just wait and see" I remember those words and how they chided me When patient was the hardest thing to be [Chorus:] Because we can't make up For the time that we've lost I must let these memories provide No little girl can stop her world to wait for me [Verse 2:] I should have known At your age, in a string of days the year is gone But in that space of time it takes so long [Chorus] [Verse 3:] Every time we say goodbye You're frozen in my mind As the child that you never will be You never will be again I'll never be more to you than a stranger could be [Chorus:] Every time we say goodbye You're frozen in my mind As a child that you never will be Will be again