Steve Erickson

Lyrics

Sing That Old Song

Watching the singer
In a dingy old bar in the city
Not really listening
And not really planning to stay
Get up to to go
And he says he’s got just one more number
He starts playing those chords
And the music just takes me away

Chorus
Sing that old song
With a melody that feels like a memory
Sing that old song
With the words that are worn nearly bare
Sing me on back to a place that is always within me
Keep me lost in the mood and the magic -- sing me back there

There was girl
Who could sing that old song like an angel
Sweet afternoons on the back porch she’d sing it for me
Long, lazy days and it seemed like they might last forever
But forever is never as long as we’d like it to be

Chorus
There was a time
When all of the music was better
It’s not really true
But it damn sure feels like it to me
I can recall
Every note, every word, every measure
Of the music that’s tied to the memory that I can still see