20 Years Have Passed

20 Years Have Passed

This is a song about a happy day I remember...it was actually 25 years ago, but "20 Years" sounds cooler. It was this sunny day and me and my Dartmouth friends were out in the sunshine, drinking beer and smoking pot. It was just lovely. This song is meant to be sorta poignant, as in, here I am, this old fossil, looking back at when I was young and having fun and the future, ever so bright, was ahead o' me. Yes, indeed.

The lyrics are:

I found something in my drawer - it was a photograph
Of myself and my old friends and all of us were laughing

The sunshine was never ending; the sunshine was never ending (never ending)

20 years have passed - looking through the glasses of my fossil eyes
And I think I'll cry

20 years, those were great friends
20 years since that photo was taken

I was smoking cigarettes and laughing in the grass
With my very bestest friends from my Dartmouth class

The sunshine was never ending; the sunshine was never ending (never ending)

20 years have passed - looking through the glasses of my fossil eyes
And I think I'll cry

20 years, those were great friends
20 years since that photo was taken

Since that photo was taken
Since that photo was taken

Since that photo was taken
Since that photo was taken

It was the sunniest day on the planet
It was so great, that you could not have planned it
We were drinking beer and smoking some pot
Now, it is so clear that I will not
Ever feel that way in the sunshine again
Now the skies are grey and I'm missing my friends

I should call them even though it's been a while
I'll break the silence; I'll pick up the phone and dial

Since that photo was taken
Since that photo was taken
Since that photo was taken
Since that photo was taken

Yes, I think I'll call my friends; I'll give it a try
If they pick up, I will tell them I called to say, "hi."