The Good Years

Were those the good years?

Somebody should have said

We were broke in a house

with a door

that stuck

Ate the same thing Thursday

and called

it luck

Radio in the window,

paint up

to our hands

Thought we were still waiting for the real thing to start Now

the door's been fixed and the house got sold

And I'd take it all back

just to be that cold

Were those the good years?

Somebody should have said

We were standing in the middle of it Thinking it was up

ahead

Were those the good years?

Kid on the corner

with a beat-up guitar

Playing it badly

and playing it hard

Wanted to tell him

but I let him be

Some things you don't hear

till they're gone

Now the door's been fixed and the house got sold

And I'd take it all back

just to be that cold

It ain't gone

It ain't gone

It's just further back than I thought

Further back than I thought

Were those the good years?

Somebody should have said

We were standing in the middle of it

Thinking it was up ahead

Were those the good years?

Somebody should have said