Name: 25 Years
Duration: 3 min 52 s
Channel: Ben Walter
Description: "25 Years" is a song by Ben Walter. The story of my 25th High School reunion

25 Years

Ben Walter

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The story of my 25th High School reunion

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Ben Walter

A Texas born Portland, Maine songwriter, composer, arranger and instrumentalist, Ben Walter's music encompasses the genres of Americana, folk rock, and alternat

As a Texas born Portland, Maine songwriter, Ben's music is reflective of the Texas songwriting tradtion that bred in alternative country, americana, folk rock genres. As an accomplished fingerstyle and lead guitarist, orchestrator and lyricist, Ben's songs pose an insightfully realistic, yet optomistic scene of the world and the American experience.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Folk Rock

Charts

Peak #580

Peak in subgenre #27

Author

Ben Walter

Rights

2005 PortCitySongworks

Uploaded

May 03, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:52

Lyrics

Well in twenty five years a lot can change
Those senior mug shots look so strange
With those baby faces and that long hair
Now there’s a China town out West Bellaire
In twenty five years – and I’ve stayed in touch
And never really thought about it all that much
But then it hit me like a ton of lead
And got stuck inside my head

Well it started ‘bout a couple of months ago
Plans were made - the time went slow
I didn’t really know what we had in store
‘til we busted in through Dave’s back door
Then we drove around town for an hour or two
And landed at our favorite bar-b-q
Past every place we used to know
Smoked brisket and cornbread to go

CHORUS
	The sun still rules the Texas sky
	We sweat all day and it stings my eye
	We stay up all night ‘til the moon goes down
	This room keeps spinning around
	Twenty five years went by so fast
	(1)We drink beer reliving the past
	(2) And some of us still live in the past
	(3) I guess I never really thought it would last
	Those little trees are ten times tall
	But I don’t feel that old at all

Hey look at me Casey I aint wearing socks
Now it’s hard to tell a head from a jock
There’s nothing that you can do about it anymore
We’re hanging in the parking lot looking to score
Goofy said “I don’t give a damn
I do what I do and I am what I am”
as Bobby blew our way in the door
of the Continental Club all charged up for more

CHORUS

After twenty five years the stories told
Of long lost souls who never grow old
But they never come around and show us their face
And the rumors fly – what a disgrace
But a bone in the backyard of Brady’s place
Laughin’ and staring out into space
Lori said there was no better time
Than those year we left behind

CHORUS

So let me buy you another beer
‘Cause the future never looked so clear
	in twenty-five years

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