Those Good Old Days 



It seems when life gets rough on us
Our memory always strays
Back to the times when life was good..
Back to the good old days.

The mind is good at playing tricks.
It has so many ways
To show us we were better off
Back in the good old days.

My grandpa speaks of them with glee
Although right now he pays
For living with abandon wild
Back in the good old days.

I thought, when young, it was a joke,
Some silly adult phase
Old people did to feel young
Just like the good old days.

The good old days were not that great.
That is a well-known fact.
Life was much harder. There were many
Vital things they lacked.

But, still, we look back fondly
As our memory displays
The world we would like to have known...
Back to those good old days.

I think I've got this figured out.
It seems to me somehow
When I look back in twenty years
Those good days will be now!

So let me live these days with joy.
I'll fill my cup and raise
A toast to days that I love most -
My future 'good old days.'