You know I think back now and it seems so long ago Lazy autumn afternoons and we were raring to go School over for hours and the homework yet begun We'd climb up on that high school roof and we'd stare at the sun We'd climb up on that high school roof, yeah, and stare As it dropped down in the sky And the clouds they were streaked orange and red And the wind, the wind would ruffle our hair And we'd whisper things unsaid (and we'd whisper things better left unsaid) We'd crawl through that hole in the fence, backside of the school The one between the football field and the swimming pool We'd shimmy up drain pipes all of two stories high And we'd sit on cracked gravel and tar watching the world go by Yeah we'd sit on cracked gravel and tar watching it all pass us by As the day slid into dusk And the trees they blew in the breeze (way down below us) And we'd pull, we'd pull our jackets close And even then sometimes we'd freeze Even then sometimes we'd fucking freeze The soft glow of the air is what I remember most And the rumble of the trains as they roared on up the coast Our juvenile laughter at our own crude and crappy little jokes And as I walk 'round here today I think I sense our ghosts As I walk 'round here today I feel our ghosts 'Cause you know now I'm a man Holding my little girl by her hand Feeling the trembles of her first day And all that I can think now to say (Is that) I have been here before I've been through every one of these goddamn doors And if I could give you one simple hint See over there, there's a hole in the fence We'd climb up on that high school roof and stare at the sun We'd climb up on that high school roof, yeah, and stare Until our eyes burned away Until our eyes burned away I thank the Lord I still remember Oh yeah, goddamn, I still remember |