Gone Away

Gone away

Are the Warm golden days

Like a keepsake memory, forever cherished

Locked in yesterday

 

Childhood dreams

and running through fields of gold

but memories were traded for technology

and yesterday was sold

 

Old farmhouses

and goin fishing til sundown

sitting on the front porch

and growing up in this sleepy little town

 

Willow trees

were traded for pollution in the air

There are crackhouses on every corner

and kids get shot in school for prayer

 

We were taught to help our fellow man

but children are starving in the states

We were taught to love one another

but now there's only rascism and hate

 

Men keep blaming eachother

For things that happened in the past

Our generation was never responsible

but we'll taste the aftermath

 

Money just wasn't important back then

all we needed was enough to get by

Now people get stabbed over a dollar

so the latest junkie can keep his high

 

Little girls used to play dressup

Now they're standing out there on the corner

Selling their souls and trying to survive

and yet somewhere that's someone's daughter

 

So busy trying to live the fast life

That we’ve forgotten how to take it slow

Slaving away while the suits get paid

This life quickly grows old

 

Drowning like Opheilia

Weighted down by our own material needs

Another mortgage, another debt to be paid

Another soul that tends to bleed

 

They say money is the root of all evil

But man needs money just to survive

The world has gone a little crazy

But we’re just trying to stay alive

 

Yes gone are the many golden years

Better days that are lost somewhere in the past

Times we’ll never see again

For nothing surely last