Long Time, Long Gone

from Devil On My Tongue by RETO BURRELL

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Time waits for no one, and the longer we live the more we reflect on the past and think about the future.
It gets even more intense when we become parents. We then remember our own childhood and start to recognize similarities between our parents and ourselves. We find ourselves saying and doing things to our own kids that our parents said and did to us. It's just a symptom of getting older.
Mix your past and your present together and what you usually get is an idea of your future.
Yet, as much as we want to head to the future, at times, it's hard to escape the past.

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Long Time, Long Gone

Last time we met was in a dream
Time built high walls in between
Younger and wilder, a seed struggling to grow
The answer to everything was yes and never no

Funny how youth disappears
There's no slowing down the years
Long time, long gone
I can't help still slipping back
Into my childhood almanac
Long time, long gone

Each day seems quicker than the last
The future's, the present, then the past
Older and wiser, well older anyway
But sometimes I wish that I could just rewind and play

Funny how youth disappears
There's no slowing down the years
Long time, long gone
I can't help still slipping back
Into my childhood almanac
Long time, long gone

Long time, long gone
Long time, long gone

Now when I look at my own kid
I see the same as my dad did
Memories and stories and all the things he said
Burst through like a river and flood into my head

Funny how youth disappears
There's no slowing down the years
Long time, long gone
I can't help still slipping back
Into my childhood almanac
Long time, long gone
Long time, long gone
Long time, long gone


Music: Reto Burrell
Lyrics: Reto Burrell, David Campbell Jr.

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from Devil On My Tongue, released September 15, 2023
Reto Burrell: Vocals, Electric Guitars, Bass, Keyboards
Mario Märchy: Drums
Kevin Volken: Backing Vocals

Recorded & Produced by Reto Burrell at EPM Studio
Drums recorded by Rob Viso at Big City Nights Productions
Mixed by Mike Watts at VuDu Studios
Mastered by Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering

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