Remember When from Carnival Town by Jake Mathison

REMEMBER WHEN
Jake Mathison

Things around here have gotten oh so bad
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting had
It’s a bummer when your summers
Leave you nothing but feeling sad

CHORUS:
Remember when it was: Cheerwine, Moon Pies, moonshine, getting by
Back porch fireflies buzzin’ round your honeypie
Chillin’ by the river with a glimmer of hope in your eyes
Remember when
Remember when
Remember when we we used to have a little bit of money
Now we’ve got two kids with an aching in their tummy
For something they ain’t never gonna have
A decent job or a piece of land
It’s all gone, those days are gone
Remember when

We're drowning in debt, yeah we never got ahead
We’re bleeding from places that we never knew bled
And we're praying that we're staying
But they're laying off, the Union Rep said

CHORUS:

These days I spend a lot of time by the railroad tracks
Waiting on a train that ain’t never coming back
It’s a killer when you fill her up
With nothing but watered down gas

Well, I don’t really know what’s gonna come of all of this
It’s not the kind of thing that you can fix with just a kiss
You know it’s tragic when the magic
You’re imagining is just to exist

CHORUS:

• American Rock
• Rock
• Minnesota