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The Magic of the Past

from Another Blue Day by The Detailz

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Remembering back to how it used to be

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The magic of the past beams out of every lighted window
I stop to smell the perfume of the garden fires
Then walk on by, kick the leaves up off the street
And remember back to how it used to be
When it was tea and toast at five when hunger calls
And darkness falls
Doctor Who and football scores
Led Zeppelin and The Doors

These are the days, the days when I remember
When I think of those things we used to do
In the days of independance
When there really was nothing else to do
But live your life for today
With never a thought for the day when we'd be old and grey

I remember the impatience, the tense anticipation
Waiting for the conkers to fall
Now the health and safety paranoid officials
Are telling us to ban them from our schools
So they lie split open and neglected on the lawn
All forlorn
Polished brown like wooden jewels
Victims of this mania for rules

The clubber girls are waiting for the bus in slips of nothing
Oblivious to the chill in the air, It’s not fair
I used to be like them, dancing till the small hours
Now I'm nodding off by half past ten
I sing “Don’t you want me baby” and they say no
You’re far too old
But they say it with a smile
And that cheers me for a while

But I can still remember
All those things that I used to do with you
In the days of no dependants
When there really was nothing else to do
But live your life for today
With never a thought for the day when we'd be old and grey

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from Another Blue Day, released November 24, 2012
Written by Somerville

DJS Vocals, Keyboards & Percussion
Neil Guitar solo

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