Days Gone By(Are Memories Gained)
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:30 am
Days Gone By(Are Mem'ries Gained)I was sellin' my day for dollarsate breakfast...cursed my blue collarthen got behind the wheel of five years of debtstuck my key in the ignitionsat there a moment just wishin'I crawled out of bed for more than a checkthen dawn over a distant fieldsparkled through my dusty windshieldmoney seemed only paper thinas that golden dawn rolled incos time falls through our lives so fastsecond by second through an hourglasssometimes we forget to cherish each grainlovebirds courting on powerlinespoor lost kites in lonesome pineslife hides in the corner of our eyeand days gone by are mem'ries gainedI saw little things I'd never noticedfor so long I'd been more focusedon making a living than life making my dayI started my Ford...hit the freewayturned off that talk radio DJand grinned at poppies growing along the wayI stopped bein' a blue collar dreamerwho thought others' money was greenerlife's a puzzle and all I see becomes a piece of meand time falls through our lives so fastsecond by second through an hourglasssometimes we forget to cherish each grainsaw a morning moon fading slowcotton-tailed clouds hanging lowheaven's shadows are often shyand days gone by are mem'ries gained though I'll never make a great amountwhat can't be counted is what countsand days gone by are mem'ries gaineddays gone by are mem'ries gained(c)2006 Robert George