Back Then

1st Verse:

I can still smell the sweet honeysuckle

Walkin' down a gravel road

Barefooted and half naked

Carrying a horny toad

Skinny dippin' and baseball and such

Was all that I cared for much

Chorus:

I wanna go back

I wanna remember when life was great

I wanna slip back in time

Where there was no room for hate

I wanna remember life

Back then

2nd Verse:

I remember Cecil's Edsel

Breaking down everywhere

I remember G.I. haircuts

And parades around the square

I remember the high school prom

And having to meet her mom

Chorus:

I wanna go back

I wanna remember when life was great

I wanna slip back in time

Where there was no room for hate

I wanna remember life

Back then

Bridge:

I remember the day they shot Kennedy

There were tears everywhere

And for a frozen moment

It seemed like people really cared

Instrumental

3rd Verse:

I remember the deaths of loved ones

I can still feel the pain

I remember the mistakes I made

I wish I could wash them away

Let's call this a formal apology

To everyone I hurt along the way

Chorus:

I wanna go back

I wanna remember when life was great

I wanna slip back in time

Where there was no room for hate

I wanna remember life

Back then