You’ve been away so longnTell you what happened while you were gonenIn your old neighborhoodnAll of your cousins were up to no goodnThey tear up the timenI know they used to complain how you never come outnnWell, you laid out in the sunnBut when winter came I forgot you had gonenI was youngnSo give me a break cause I don’tnI stayed awaynThen saw them sweeping the streets up on New Years DaynnRound and round we gonUntil you stopnAnd look outsidenI’m just along for the ridenSo take your timennYou must be wonderingnWhat happened to everythingnThese houses are fading fastnThere is other towns like thatnCommon’ it’s not that badnYou’ve been there and backnI laid on the lawn, Lonnie was gonenI watched from the garden rowsnYou know I used to complain, now I don’t