Song Description

The song conjures up a bittersweet mood, tapping into the experience of time, and how looking back inspires both pleasure and regret as we grow older.

Lyrics

The Songs We Used To Play

When we were young (do you remember?)
We had no sense of time.
When the past was just a scene from a movie
Our future all in rhyme.

It was easy to hope
That every word our heroes had to say
Could awaken the world
We built our dreams from
In the songs that we used to play.

Looking back, was there any way of knowing
Just how hard we'd have to try?
Have all the years kept you boldly pressing forward?
Or are they simply slipping by?

When the hope for tomorrow means
Counting on the courage of today
Does it help when you remember
The songs that we used to play?
How those sunsets never faded away
In the songs that we used to play.

The things we thought would last forever
Are getting hard to find
And the past may be gone
But the memories are with me to this day
Of how we kept those dreams alive
In the songs that we used to play.
No, those feelings never faded away
In the songs that we used to play.


Heidi Jane - violins, viola, vocals, piano, percussion, drum and bass programming, clapping
Chris Brown - tambourine, drum and bass programming
David R. -clapping
Chris Rossbach - electric guitar
Yoko Solo - drum programming