They Don't Make Years Like They Used To Lyrics - Doug Stone

I bet you can remember back when you were five or six 

That year between each Christmas seemed like ten 

And things that you looked forward to seemed so far away 

And being grown was a million years back then 

That summer between junior-high and high school took three years 

Twenty more went by till you could drive 

Oh, they made them good in the old days, some would last forever 

But the ones they're making now just don't survive 

They just don't make years like they used to 

Strange, you turn around and then they're gone 

Let's make the most of each moment together 

'Cause the years they're making now don't last that long 

It seems like only yesterday we held our first born child 

Today he's going off to school, you know 

And that favorite photograph of you and me that New Year's eve 

Was that lost year or fifteen years ago 

When we were still just sweethearts, the days would pass so slow 

Tonight, time found us snuggled up so close 

All that time that just stood still, oh, so long ago 

Is flying by now when you need it most 

They just don't make years like they used to 

Strange you turn around and then they're gone 

Let's make the most of each moment together 

'Cause the years they're making now don't last that long 

No, the years they're making now don't last that long