Good Old Days...

Nostalgia is an amazing thing.... It is almost always sweet.. You tend to remember the good things in your life more than the bad.. Almost everyone feels that his past was better than the present.. In high school I felt that my days in primary were much sweeter.. In college, I felt the same about school.. And am dead sure, a year down the line, I would feel the same about my days at the B-school....

Perhaps this is the reason that nostalgic songs tend to be so popular.. One of the all time greats in this regard is “the summer of ‘69”.. Am listening to it as i write this blog.. Just got the full lyrics of the song from the net too.. So this one’s dedicated to all those “good old days”....

Bryan Adams 

Summer of '69 from Reckless 1984

I got my first real six-string

Bought it at the five-and-dime

Played it till my fingers bled

It was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school

Had a band and we tried real hard

Jimmy quit and Jody got married

I shoulda known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now

That summer seemed to last forever

And if I had the choice

Ya - I'd always wanna be there

Those were the best days of my life

Ain't no use in complainin'

When you got a job to do

Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in

And that's when I met you

Standin' on your mama's porch

You told me that you'd wait forever

Oh and when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69

Man we were killin' time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no

And now the times are changin'

Look at everything that's come and gone

Sometimes when I play that old six-string

I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Standin' on your mama's porch

You told me it would last forever

Oh the way you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69