The Living Years by Mike And The Mechanics

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come (1)______________ on (2)________ door
I (3)________ that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just (4)________ I could have told him in the living years
Oh, (5)________________ bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm (6)____________ that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it
He says it's (7)______________ sense
You just can't get agreement
In this (8)______________ tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defence
Say it loud (say it loud), say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late (it's too late) when we die (oh when we die)
To (9)__________ we don't see eye to eye
So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only (10)__________________ the future
It's the (11)____________________ that lasts
So don't (12)__________ to the fortunes
You (13)__________________ see as fate
It may (14)________ a new perspective
On a (15)__________________ day
And if you don't give up, and don't give in
You may just be okay
So say it loud, say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as (16)________ as you hear
Because it's too late, it's too late (it's too late)
When we die (oh, when we die)
To admit we don't see eye to eye
I wasn't there (17)________ morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I (18)________ (19)________ I (20)__________ have told him in the living years
Say it loud, say it clear (oh say it clear)
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too (21)________ (it's too late) (22)________ we die (it's too late when we die)
To (23)__________ we don't see eye to eye
So say it, say it, say it loud (say it loud)
Say it (24)__________ (come on say it clear)
Say it loud
(Don't give up, don't give in and don't look (25)________ 'til it's too late)
Say it clear
Say it loud (say it loud, say it loud)

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