Lookin' Back on Time
A song (without music yet) by David L. Allen
Didn't we sing "mush-a-ringum"?
Didn't we sing the Sunshine song?
Didn't we try to make the skies a little bluer?
Even when most things went wrong?
Chorus:
I really thought that we were happy then,
Way back when - when you were mine.
I can't say why for sure, it hurts the way it does.
Remembering, just lookin' back on time.
Didn't we drive the open highway?
See everything, from sea to shiny sea?
Didn't we stop to smell the flowers in the springtime?
Weren't we all that we could be?
(Repeat chorus...)
Yea there surely were some bad times.
But even then we held each other's hand.
We walked right through all hell along with Sissy.
We had to be strong then just to stand.
But we did stand then, and even got our song back.
Though a part of me was never quite the same.
Still I tried to do for you what really matters.
Guess if it wasn't quite enough I'll take the blame.
(Repeat chorus...)
There's no way I know I could've done better,
And if I could, you know I'd surely try.
But Old Man Time goes only forward.
And if that were not true, I'd wonder why.
Cause you can't learn without just growin' older.
And when you're old, and life is all but done,
Experience is just the stuff left over,
When all your time and all your money's gone.
(Repeat chorus...)
So make your way the best way that you can,
Don't hold back just on account of me.
Find your life's song and just go and sing it.
Knowing Daddy's love will always be.
Ending chorus:
I really thought that we were happy then,
Way back when - when you were mine.
It's over now is maybe why it hurts the way it does,
Remembering, just lookin' back on time.
DLA, 12 March, 1997
© Copyright 1997 David L. Allen. All rights reserved.