The Way Things Were

English translation

Throwing rocks at trains and all around on tracks.

Dead-end kids had slipped between the cracks.

We spent our time getting high.

We did our best to get by.

And we said goodbye the way things were.

No one said that life would be so hard.

So I planned out my escape with an old guitar.

I wrote a song with a stolen riff. If you ain't got a song, you ain't got shit.

And we said goodbye the way things were.

Sometimes I think of when we were young, we didn't have a care.

Sometimes I wish that life would just stand still.

We lit the fire when it all began.

Then we watched it all burn down again.

And we said goodbye the way things were.

Sometimes

I think of when we were young, we didn't have a care.

I wanna go back to a simpler place and time.

As the night falls, we share the teary eye.

Watching all our freedoms disappear.

And we said goodbye the way things were.

It was surely a stroke of luck now that I found love.

And I didn't know how fortunate that I was.

I said I'll hold on to that girl till it's time to leave this world.

And we said goodbye the way things were.

Sometimes I think of when we were young, we didn't have a care.

Why do all good things come to an end?

Seems like it was just yesterday.

The flame of youth was never here to stay.

And we said goodbye the way things were.

And we said goodbye the way things were.

And we said goodbye to the way things were.