Money Where My Mouth Is - The Lyrics

More Past Than Future

Words and Music - Paul Smyth 2021

We grow old when we stop playing, but there’s a light still in our eyes

I’ve got a palm full of dice here, and they’re free for us to try

I’ll never be an old man, I really haven’t changed at all

Our dreams that were light, have taken on weight

And we’re not standing quite so tall

I’m a man with more past than future, that’s lesson one and it don’t need a tutor

We don’t have wrinkles we have history, lovers initials carved into that tree

And when we rolled up our sleeves they turned up their noses

You reap what you sow and they ain’t growing roses

I’m now the person that I should have been, it’s not to late to start a brand new dream

There’s no shortcut to any place worth going, don’t always take the shortest track

We stuck around when the others let go, we don’t need those old times back

It’s the hard work we do, when times get so tough, and a spirit to never give up

And when nightmares arrive, cling tight to your dreams

Or you’ll drown in your half filled cups

I’m a man with more past than future, that’s lesson one and it don’t need a tutor

We don’t have wrinkles we have history, lovers initials carved into that tree

And when we rolled up our sleeves they turned up their noses

You reap what you sow and they ain’t growing roses

I’m now the person that I should have been, it’s not to late to start a brand new dream

I’m a man with more past than future, that’s lesson one and it don’t need a tutor

We don’t have wrinkles we have history, lovers initials carved into that tree

And when we rolled up our sleeves they turned up their noses

You reap what you sow and they ain’t growing roses

I’m now the person that I should have been, it’s not to late to start a brand new dream