Here is the Eli Yates song THE NEXT TIME I'M YOUNG My shopping cart sings on the cold morning pavement Searching for dreams and aluminum cans I catch my reflection in the shuttered up windows And wonder how I ever got as old as I am. The street has no markers -- it's just a river of concrete Mile after mile, year after year. I reckon I remember but I can't for the life of me Understand how I ended up here. Chorus: And the next time I'm young I'll do it all different I'll make the right moves and I'll make the right plans And I'll have me a family and a good job to go to And a house with a driveway where I park the sedan And I'll never be poor and I'll never go hungry And I'll wear fancy clothes out on my promenade And I'll sit at the table as long as I want to And I'll shut my own door at the end of the day. Somewhere in a pocket of this greasy old backpack Is a magazine picture of an old country town Where there isn't much concrete, lots of good grass to walk on And bushels of children running around. The folks seem so friendly all smiling and waving, Covered in sunshine as they walk to the fair. As darkness crawls over me down in the alley I wonder if someday I can maybe live there.
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