“When I Grow Old” by Callum James - Free Friday/Saturday (“FL&R”)

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     Finding songs that can be legally downloaded is easy. The difficult task is to find legally downloadable music that we recommend. Our plan is to post at least one FL&R song each Friday/Saturday. 

     His website identifies Callum James as being 18 years old. After listening to “When I Grow Old,” the question is how a teenager can have such a depth of existential understanding, as well as the talent to express that understanding? Callum is currently enrolled at Leeds College of Music. We wish him well, because he is a reason to be excited about the direction of music. 

     “When I Grow Old” by Callum James

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Website: http://www.callumjamesmusic.co.uk/

Lyrics of “When I Grow Old” by Callum James

When I grow old will my eyes be blue?

Hair stay blonde, no missing tooth

Drive around in fancy cars

See pretty girls and nice guitars

Learn a language, find some work

And see New York, not through Google Earth

A great big world, no four blue walls

Will it seem so small when I grow tall?

When I grow tall, when I grow tall

When I grow old I'll find your heart

I promise mine, just give me part

And I don't need no house, no car

I'll have your hand and all you are

And I can't promise diamond rings

So, I'll build a castle brick by brick

And where we go, we'll spin a globe

So where it land and build a home

We'll build a home, we'll build a home

We'll build a home, we'll build a life here down from Earth

So the nights we fight, we hurt, we'll be alright

'Cause I'm alive tonight, in the sky tonight

Way up high tonight she said

Will it be cold, will it be cold?

I lose my love, I live alone

My legs don't work these breaking bones

But look above and let me know

Will you leave flowers at my stone?

Will you leave flowers at my stone?

When I grow old, I hold your scan

And put my life, here where she stands

And all I own is yours to have

Born in arms and raised at hand

I'll share my eyes, my ears with you

You'll be raised on Beatles and Bowie too

But, keep a smile just like your Mum's

And call me dad I'll call you son

And we'll grow old, yeah we'll grow old

Yeah, well grow old

Yeah we spent 40 years on earth

My daddy's gone it really hurts, I wonder why

I'm alive tonight, in the sky tonight

Way up high tonight she said

Will it be cold, will it be cold?

I lose my love, I live alone

My legs don't work these breaking bones

But look above and let me know

Will you leave flowers at my stone?

Will you leave flowers at my stone?

And as her eyes begin to fade

I sit beside her where she lay

Hold me close, don't let this go

This ain't no home, this ain't no home

And watch my hair turn blonde to gray

My sweet 16, take my breath away

And leave me lonely in this home

As I lay flowers at your stone

I cry by flowers at your stone

Goodbye by flowers at your stone

And I lay flowers at your stone

(Just look above and let me know)

I lay by flowers at your stone

I cry by flowers at your stone

(Keep me close, don’t let me..)

Goodbye by flowers at your stone

I cry by flowers at your stone

(Just look above and let me know)

Goodbye by flowers at your stone

When I grow old, will my eyes be blue?

Hair stay blonde, no missing tooth

Will the world seem small, will it grow cold?

When I grow old, when I grow old