Back In the Good Old Days - Pat McLaughlin

Changes come, I watch them grow In your eyes an ancient glow I caught a glimpse, a dangerous smile Oh, my God, she's a wild child now I've been dreaming, I've been pushing through I'm not the star of the story I've been hurt, and I've been missing you I'm that special kind of lonely These are the good old days, they're ahead and behind These are the good old days, have to keep that in mind These are the good old days, they're ahead and behind These are the good old days, the good old days These are the good old days, the good old days These are the good old days I came of age, tempting fate Growing up, had to wait In my dreams, I miss someone Love is blind, deaf, and dumb I've been dreaming, I've been pushing through I'm not the star of a story I've been hurt and I've been missing you I'm that special kind of lonely These are the good old days, they're ahead and behind These are the good old days, have to keep that in mind These are the good old days, they're re ahead and behind These are the good old days, the good old days These are the good old days, the good old days These are the good old, these are the good old Passing through, passing out Dancing in the kitchen while neighbors shout Feeling up, getting down Gat to show love while we still around So don't stop, just let it out Don't quit don't let me down Don't stop, just let it out Don't quit, don't let me down 'Cause I've been dreaming, I've been paying dues I'm not one for the glory And I've been falling, won't be landing soon It's not the end of the story These are the good old days, they're ahead and behind These are the good old days, have to keep that in mind These are the good old days, they're ahead behind These are the good old days, the good old days These are the good old days, the good old days These are the good old, these are the good old days These are the good old, these are the good old days These are the good old, these are the good old days

We'd get up before sun-up to get the work done up We'd work in the fields 'til the sun had gone down We've stood and we've cried as we have bristly watched A hailstorm beatin' our crops to the ground We've gone to bed hungry many nights in the past In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again In the good old days when times were bad I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed And I've seen him work 'til he's stiff as a board And I've seen momma layin' in suffer and sickness In need of a doctor that we couldn't afford Anything at all was more than we had In the good old days when times were bad We've got up before and found ice on the floor Where the wind would blow snow through the cracks in the wall And I've walked many miles to an old country school With my lunch in the bib of my overalls Anything at all was more than we had In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again In the good old days when times were bad In the good old days when times were bad In the good old days when times were bad In the good old days

It's just you and I Could it be for life? Wanna bring you 'round my friends Let you meet the guys If I take her home to my granny, yeah Would she know what to say? If I take her home to my family clan Will it feel the same? Back in my neighborhood, bring it on back Bring it on back (oh), bring it on back Take her to my neighborhood, bring it on back Bring it on back (oh), bring it on back Back to my neighborhood, bring it on back Bring it on back (oh), bring it on back To my neighborhood, bring it on back (back) Bring it on back, bring it on back Bring it on back In my main, on the low You put in the time But I really need to know Looking for a sign (been looking for a sign) Can I bring her round the homies? Damn Will she know what to say? There's so much fighting on this (this is who I came from) Will it feel the same? Back in my neighborhood, bring it on back Bring it on back (oh), bring it on back (to meet my mama) Back to my neighborhood, bring it on back (back) Bring it on back (oh), bring it on back To my neighborhood, bring it on back Bring it on back (take me back), bring it on back Can I take you to my neighborhood? Bring it on back, just bring it on back (oh) Where I'm understood, where I'm understood