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How You've Grown

  
Our Time in Eden
  ♫How You've Grown  
10,000 Maniacs

◄  Album : Our Time in Eden  -  Performed by: 10,000 Maniacs  ►
  Composed by: Natalie Merchant  -  First heard: "Ladders"



“
My, how you've grown. I remember that phrase from my childhood days too.
”
— Natalie Merchant
During the 2015 semester at Greendale, a consultant named Frankie Dart was hired to join the "Save Greendale Committee". However, her take charge attitude rubbed the other committee members the wrong way. Their animosity towards her eventually caused Frankie to lash out and lose the support of her only ally at school, Abed. She left Greendale and started looking for another job only to have an interview interrupted by Jeff and Abed. After another disaster occurred at school, they tracked her down and begged her to come back. An extended montage with them apologizing to her played out with the song How You've Grown playing in the background. It was first heard in the Season Six episode "Ladders ".

Lyrics[]


My, how you've grown.
I remember that phrase
from my childhood days too
Just wait and see.
I remember those words
and how they chided me,
when patient was
the hardest thing to be.
Because we can't make up
for the time that we've lost
I must let these memories provide.
No little girl can stop
her world to wait for me.

I should have known.
At your age, in a string
of days the year is gone.
But in that space of time
it takes so long.
Because we can't make up
for the time that we've lost,
I must let those memories provide.
No little girl can stop
her world to wait for me.

Every time we say goodbye
you're frozen in my mind
as the child that you never will be,
you never will be again.
I'll never be more to you
than a stranger could be.

Every time we say goodbye
you're frozen in my mind
as a child that you never will be,
will be again.


Trivia[]

10,000 Maniacs[]

"How You've Grown" is a single from the indie rock band 10,000 Maniacs that was on their 1992 album "Our Time in Eden". This was the band's sixth album which also happened to be the last studio recording featuring their original lead vocalist Natalie Merchant. Her eventual replacement Mary Ramsey was also featured on the album playing viola on several tracks including "How You've Grown". She and her music partner John Lombardo opened for 10,000 Manics as the folk duo "John & Mary" before they both officially joined the band following Merchant's departure.



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