Story Behind The Song

I wrote this about my partner's parents, when we packed them up to leave their home of 32 years and all the memoires of that place.

Song Description

leaving a home of 32 years

Lyrics

32 long years, three girls now grown
All back to help you get on your way
A doctor, a teacher with kids of their own
The last one your baby and always will stay so

Time to leave this house that held you so fast
Time to put behind a lifetime of living
Take down the pictures that harbor the past
A time for letting go and forgiving

All the dreams you?ve dreamed here are wrapped up
All the years you?ve lived are packed up and moved away
Memories like boxes folded and filled up
Tears seal the seams
And tear you away

Up to the attic, old Barbie Dolls
Out on the driveway, the sound of a free throw
Echoes of yesterday bounce through these halls
And right now it seems like all that you know

Chorus:

Sometimes moving forward
Seems like two steps behind
Sometimes what is best is hardest to find
Just remember the blessing
Just remember the grace
And thank God for daughters like you raised

You sit in a circle around a treasure chest
Laughing and crying at all you remember
Little time to linger, less time to rest
But these times will always be marked by September

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