A Time Called You

Yeah, look In the classroom, it’s early fall Paper fortune teller and football Pencil fights with a number two Slap hands, I’d never lose As scrubs, we lived in fear Crossed the senior lawn on a dare Mood rings, eight-track jams Drive-in speakers, CB bands Star Wars, checkered vans Ditto jeans and painter pants Always somewhere far to go Stayed out till the streetlights glowed Candy Nerds, Big League Chew Mongoose bikes and Rubik’s Cubes G.I. Joe and Cabbage Patch Kids Members Only jackets, jelly flips Walkman, music on the go Dr. Demento on the radio Donkey Kong at the arcade Ten thousand points, one more play Super Soakers, rollerblades Beanie Babies, thought they’d pay Dial-up screeching in the hall Pagers, chat rooms, AOL and all Oh, and the world’s rolling on Rolling on, yeah Taking us further every day The voices we remember Fade to echoes on the way Echoes on the way But the songs that used to know us Still come drifting through the room And for a moment I’m back there To a time called you, oh, oh, oh Time called you, yeah Alright, listen Razor scooters, trucker hats Sharpie titles, CD stacks Click-wheel circles, MP3s MySpace top eight following me Plastic guitars, rock-star dreams Wii remotes through TV screens Six-second loops and fidget spins Angry Birds on morning trains Pocket monsters filled the parks Block-built empires after dark Everything came on demand Everything slipped right through our hands Oh, and the world’s rolling on World’s rolling on Taking us further every day The voices we remember Fade to echoes on the way Echoes on the way But the songs that used to know us Still come drifting through the room And for a moment I’m back there To a time called you, oh, oh, oh Empty roads, homemade bread Paper masks and unmade beds Store shelves bare, touch grass Nobody knew how long it’d last Wordle grids and cable news Vintage fits and thrift-store shoes Crypto coins and digital land Streaming life straight from our hands Everything we threw away Repackaged for another day The future showed up right in line While we were busy at the time History isn’t only wars Or dates we memorized It’s the smell of your parents’ house The kitchen light at five It’s everything that ended Before we knew to mind The last time passed unnoticed We were busy at the time Oh, and the world’s rolling on Oh, rolling on, yeah Taking us further every day Oh, rolling on, yeah Taking us further every day Farther every day The voices we remember Fade to echoes on the way Echoes on the way But the songs that used to know us Still come drifting through the room And for a moment I’m back there To a time called you, oh, oh, oh Called you, oh, oh, oh No one said, “Remember this” Busy at the time No one knew what we would miss Busy at the time Running down tomorrow’s line We didn’t know we loved it We were busy at the time We didn’t know we loved it We were busy at the