Past Lives

Story Behind The Song

Its a song about the "Woodstock Generation" (my generation)that started with great promise and somehow let it pass threw our fingers and became the thing we use to be against. Many of us still live back in that era and never could leave. They just became old hippies,or sold out or are jaded to world. However I think this song could apply to any generation. We are remember what we could have been some how settle for less.

Song Description

Rock with pop undertones and repeating melody themes. A message of lost opportunity and regret. Good instrumentals and solo interplay between organ and lead guitar

Song Length 5:30 Genre Rock - General, Pop - Rock
Tempo Medium Fast (131 - 150) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Diplomatic, Cool Subject Regret, General
Similar Artists The Wallflowers Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

Past Lives

Verse 1
Things remembered, from history's past
seems so much better then, the view of always looking back
Blinded by, our naive eyes
thought we knew whats best for us, we didn't have a clue as why.

Verse 2
The generation, of 69
we would teach the world to sing, peace and love for all mankind
The 70's came, and the 80's too
the 90's have come and gone, they slipped by us too.

Chorus
We live, in the past (4x)

Verse 3
We are born, from others past
Handed down a legacy, the future is our pass
Old solutions, with no resolve
Doom to make the same mistakes, that ruined it before

Chorus
Because we live in the past
We live in the past
We live in the past
We live in the past

Solo

Come and Gone, world solutions
Come and Gone, opportunity
Come and Gone, understanding
Come and Gone, and security
Come and Gone, broken friendships
Come and Gone, broken dreams
Come and Gone, expectations
Come and Gone, you and me

Chorus
Cause we live in the past
Our hope and dreams have come and gone, we thought they always last
Cause we live in the past

We live in the past
We live, cause we live, in the past, ah in the past
We live, cause we live, in the past, in the past
We live, cause we live, in the past, in the past
Cause we live, in the past.

Lyrics John P. Flynn Music John P. Flynn
Producer John P. Flynn Publisher John P. Flynn
Performance John Flynn, Johnny Sonntag, Jason, Pat McSherry Label Thunder Pumpkin Recording

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