Then

We were happy then

Burning up the days, the kind of place will last so long

Busy making hay, every dizzy day, sung a summer song

Saying come what may, nothing could go wrong

We were hungry then

Sharing every crust, often halfway bust, often halfway poor

Close enough to touch, nothing mattered much, somehow we'd endure

We were both so young, we were both too sure

They had a glow, they had a shine

Those days of hope and cheap white wine

Suddenly one day, summer ebbed away, winter came to stay

Days are colder now

And the rain falls down on a lonesome town, sighing for the past

And I'm older now, wise enough to know, summers never last

We were both so blind, and we ran too fast

(Days would last forever then)

(Not too late for lovers then)

(Lots of time to breathe the ????? air)

But suddenly one day, summer ebbed away, winter came to stay

Days are colder now

And the rain falls down on a lonesome town, sighing for the past

And I'm older now, wise enough to know, summers never last

And that song we knew

Won't be sung again

For the song was you

And the time was then