LYRICS

THE GOLDEN AGE

And in the Golden Age We used to sit and listen to the wireless Oh, we were poor, you know But we were happy We stood atop a hill And clutched our caps Like nothing really mattered With coal dust running down Our laughing faces But look around us now The old days are totally gone There’s nothing left for us But slag heaps and clouds Why are they over? Those were the best days of our lives Goodbye my bygone days Bygone days gone by Goodbye my bygone days Bygone days of days gone bygone days Some people disagree Some say that the old days were abysmal Cause of the Wall Street Crash And World War Something But what of Fred Astaire And Charlie Chaplin’s foray into talkies Marlene Dietrich’s legs And King Kong’s movements? But look around us now The old days are totally gone Because of Father Time And Old Mother Clock We can rebuild them We can relive those happy times We have the power We have the glory We can build Eden In the back yard of our minds Goodbye my bygone days Bygone days gone by Behold the new days Of magnience and splendorifity The future creeps up like an actress Pretending to be someone new Brandish your mystic wand and say “Be gone” And Lo, there came some ancient Kings Who spake of European things The distant sound of unheard symphonies And pizzicato strings So raise a glass to ancient time And sip a cup of ancient wine As rain folds in our weathered hands Like ancient fabled rhyme Nobody will ever get sad We’ll never go mad When we’re living in the golden age Nobody will ever get hurt We’ll never eat dirt When we’re living in the golden age Everyone will have their own yacht And we’ll never get shot When we’re living in the golden age Nobody will ever cry We’ll never ever die When we’re living in the golden age

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