While I Was Away (with Alaina Stacey)

Everything gets smaller each time that I look back

Can I believe I used to have to reach somewhere to hold your hand

Monsters in my bedroom closet shrink behind a crack

Everything gets smaller each time that I look back

Everything gets stronger as the years go by

My heart learned how to emulate, used to make me cry

My head learned how to face what I was too afraid to try

Everything gets stronger as the years go by

Time has a funny way of moving things along

I'll keep on running like that fish, I'm okay

Everyone got older, while I was away

My brother finished high school, my mother's hair turned gray

My sister started working and talking this far away

Everyone got older, while I was away

I got so much older while I was away