Outstretched Arms

When you were born lit the room up like Edison Wrote you a poem it was nothing like Tennyson Child, yesterdays Tell me where have they gone? You climbed up on tables always laughing and yelling Took a pen to the sofa with a curious spelling My child, yesterdays Tell me where have they gone? Time's not absolute It goes faster for me than you And the days keep on slipping through My outstretched arms I read you bedtime stories but I fell asleep first You snuck out and licked all the frosting off the cake My child, yesterdays Tell me where did they go? Love is absolute It gives everything for you And the years keep on slipping through My outstretched arms One day you'll be grown, I'll be weathered and worn You'll still shine like the day, like the day you were born You'll say "dad, yesterdays - Tell me where did they go?" Remember that summer eve When you stumbled and skinned your knees? You turned and you reached for me For my outstretched arms All of those memories Float away on that summer breeze When you stumble remember me With my outstretched arms