Throwing rocks at trains
along the railroad tracks
Dead end kids
who'd slipped
between the cracks
We spent our time
getting high
we did our best
to get by
and we said goodbye
to the way things were
No one said that life
would be so hard
So I planned out
my escape
with an old guitar
I wrote a song
with a stolen riff
if you ain't got a song
you ain't got shit
and we said goodbye
to the way things were
Sometimes I think of
when we were young
we didn't have a care
Sometimes I wish
that life
would just stand still
We lit the fire
when it all began
then we watched it
all burn down again
and we said goodbye
to the way things were
Sometimes I think of
when we were young
we didn't have a care
I wanna go back
to a simpler
place and time
as the night falls
we shed a tear
watching all our
freedoms disappear
and we said goodbye
to the way things were
It was surely
a stroke of luck
now that I found love
and I didn't know
how fortunate
that I was
I said I'd hold on
to that girl
till it's time
to leave this world
and we said goodbye
to the way things were
Sometimes I think of
when we were young
we didn't have a care
Why do all good things
come to an end
Seems like it
was just yesterday
the flame of youth
was never here to stay
and we said goodbye
to the way things were
and we said goodbye
to the way things were
and we said goodbye
to the way things were