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Best Years Of Your Life

by HB Radke

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I wrote this song for my daughter's senior year of high school. Advising her to really enjoy the next few years for they tend to be romanticized as the best ones. Youth, endless possibilities, etc,

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you’re at a magic age
about to turn the page
on the story of your life

the tragedies
catastrophes
feel bigger than
the tallest mountain
weighing down on you
no matter what you do

when the winter winds feel colder
when you've grown a little older.
you'll look back and you will find
at this very place in time
the tears you cried will be forgotten
and with each new passing autumn
the truth is crystal clear
these are the best years of your life

you’ll try to you find your voices
amid the din of all the choices
that diminish over time

before you’re dead and buried
try one thing that you find scary
live in the here and now
try not to be too proud

when the winter winds feel colder
when you've grown a little older.
you'll look back and you will find
at this very place in time
the tears you cried will be forgotten
and with each new passing autumn
the truth is crystal clear
these are the best years of your life

time is something
you have too much of
when you’re younger
its the one thing
you can’t get more to
feed the hunger
of ambitions
borne of midlife
desperation
indecision
will only lead to your
frustration

don’t lose your sense of wonder
or dwell upon your blunders
they make you who you are

live for your true passion
don’t blindly follow fashion
or give up on your dreams
unlikely as they seem

when the winter winds feel colder
when you've grown a little older.
you'll look back and you will find
at this very place in time
the tears you cried will be forgotten
and with each new passing autumn
the truth is crystal clear
these are the best years of your life

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released June 1, 2017
Written, performed, and produced by HB Radke

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HB Radke Seattle, Washington

HB Radke has music in his blood. The son of Harry James Orchestra frontman Fred Radke and vocalist Gina Funes, HB started on the trumpet at the age of 8. He started his own big band just a few years after that. His career as a vocalist began in his teens.

For 2011 he has resolved to write and record at least one original song per week. As of September 2011, he is 4 weeks ahead of schedule. ... more

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