When Less Was More

I had forgotten I had written this song , and found it in my senior project songbook. I was inspired by my best friends mother, Valerie, when she came back from her high school reunion. It's kinda silly, kinda Irish, kinda true!

When Less Was More

by Jeremy Cooney

 

I remember

Playing Red Rover

In the park across the street

Do you remember

When I gave you a smile

And layed my world at your feet?

I remember

When you told me

Six years was not enough

Do you remember

Why we parted ways

Weren't we in love,

Or was it just too much?

 

CHORUS

Back to the ways

Of the good old days

When we didn't know

What was in store

Back to the nights

When we didn't fight

Back to a time

When less was more

 

I remember

The skinniest, prettiest, richest
Lonliest girl that walked the room

Do you remember

The fire in seventh grade

Bob took the fall

For Mike's impending doom

I remember

Feeling guilty

Thinking that we had

Killed our teacher's mom (don't ask)

Do you remember a time

When geeks didn't talk to jocks

And life wasn't just a distant song?

 

CHORUS

 

BRIDGE

And now we sit

Reliving every memory

Grown out of ourselves and sin

And now we drink
Our laughter at our sides

Realizing how much fun

It is to play again

 

CHOURS

 

(Tempo slows)

 

Now I don't remember

What brought me here

But I think that I shall stay

I still can taste

And smell and feel

The tides of yesterday

And so it goes

Like any fool knows

I'll forget when I'm underground

But 'till that day

We learn to pray

For the memories we have found

 

(Tempo picks up)

 

CHORUS