I went home for Christmas   To the house that I grew up in   Going back was something after all these years   I drove down Monterey Street   And felt a little sadness   When I turned left on Laurel and the house appeared   And I snuck up to that rocking chair   Where the winter sunlight slanted on the screened-in porch   And I stared out past the shade tree   That my laughing daddy planted on the day that I was born      [Chorus]   And I let time go by so slow   And I made every moment last   And I thought about years   How they take so long   And they go so fast      Across the street the Randol's oldest daughter must have come home   Her two boys built a snowman by the backyard swings   I thought of old man Randol   And his Christmas decorations   And how he used to leave them up 'til early spring   And I thought of all the summers   That I paced that porch and swore I'd die of boredom there   And I thought of what I'd give to feel another summer linger   Where a day feels like a year      [Chorus]      Then the door flew open, and my mother's voice was laughing   As she called back to my daddy, "Come and look who's here!"   And I thought about years