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Paula - pre high school prom!
June 1969
From Then To Now
Music & Lyrics by Paula Beth Chafetz Snyder
copyright ©1976 by Paula Beth Chafetz
Renewal © 2004 by Paula Chafetz Snyder ASCAP


Looking back, well, we've grown so much
Yet the favorable qualities
that put us together once still remain.
All the growing has been for the best.
All the growing has been for the best.

And when you touch me now,
we are "new" together.
And it seems like it's been
such a long, long time        
And what parted us is what brings us together  
All the growing for the best.
All the growing for the best.

One would never think
that a high school date affair
Would turn to a love affair in seven years' time...
One would never think
that a song in dischord long ago
Would turn to a poem in comfortable rhyme.

And we might come together again
in a few years' time.
But those moments of closeness
which lingered this time,
May just whisk away as the seasons change,
But the growth will have been for the best.

When I see you again, we'll feel much more
'cause the growth will have been for the best.
Yes, the growth will have been for the best.
On "Renewed" (c) (p) 2007
On Ltd Edition Preview 2006
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