TRANQUIL DAYS
VERSE
Those were tranquil days when I think back on my youth
When my biggest worry was a wiggling tooth.
Then was such a simple time.
Life was innocent, sublime.
That is how the world appeared. Yes, it’s the truth.
VERSE
I could walk along the street without a care.
Riding bikes two miles to town was not a dare
All around seemed safe and sure
With my neighborhood secure
That I never feared for how I was to fare.
BRIDGE
Oh, how I miss that peaceful feeling!
What a blow to have been dragged away!
So I yearn to return to that homestead someday.
BRIDGE
Yet, though my town’s still Rand McNally’d
And my boyhood house looks as it was,
I’m a man so I can’t go back to childhood ‘cause
VERSE
Much as I would like, I can’t live in the past.
It’s a memory, and though it’s bound to last
Now has got me in its grip,
Clutching so I’ll never slip.
I feel stranded in the present, an outcast.
(3-25-2003)
WORDS AND MUSIC COPYRIGHT 2003 BY PETER J. SCHINDELMAN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
