Days That Used To Be

Album: Ragged Glory (1990)
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  • People say don't rock the boat
    Let things go their own way
    Ideas that once seem so right
    Now have gotten hard to say
    I wish that I could talk to you
    And you could talk to me
    'Cause there's very few of us left, my friend
    From the days that used to be

    Seemed like such a simple thing
    To follow one's own dream
    But possessions and concession
    Are not often what they seem
    They drag you down and load you down
    In disguise of security
    But we never had to make those deals
    In the days that used to be

    Talk to me, my long lost friend
    Tell me how you are
    Are you happy with your circumstance?
    Are you driving a new car?
    Does it get you where you wanna go
    With a seven year warranty
    Or just another hundred thousand miles away
    From the days that used to be? Writer/s: Neil Young
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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