Slow down girl   It's a funny old world   We've got everything but we can't have it   It's true you know we're passing through all alone      It wasn't so long ago   That we were afraid   Afraid that life would keep us waiting   Afraid that we would keep on taking   Back seat rides through our home town lies   Where every trip's a dead end street      And baby here we are   How did we get this far?   Before we closed our eyes and prayed for faster days      You try to escape   The person you are   Though we change our scene and keep on trying   We can't ever take back the years   Of love we gave, love we made   And all the love that brought us here      And baby here we are   How did we get this far?   Before we closed our eyes and prayed for faster days      And when everything's given, forgiven, forgotten   Forget that we lost the trail   If there's love that we've started   Don't leave it half-hearted   Like unsolicited mail   Have we finished our past?   Did we finish our present?   Don't wash it away like it's dirt   If we hide from the truth we'll get hurt   Don't lock it all away      I know we were young   With so much to learn   We thought we understood the contradictions of love   The innocent generations lost in sand   One day we'd understand   Though we may run we cannot hide      Cause baby here we are   How did we get this far?   Before we closed our eyes and prayed for faster days   Closed our eyes and prayed for faster days   We Closed our eyes and prayed for faster days   Closed our eyes and prayed for faster days