​tpk - Days Gone By lyrics

[Intro] Hi, I'm Taylor Karras I'm a nineties kid But I like to talk to you about the time I admire Which is the fifties and sixties So just sit back, listen... Reflect and immerse yourself [Verse 1] Picture TV in black & white Picture gas so cheap that the price is right Cars so extravagant with them tail lights When the girls look in they just wanna fight A local diner is where you hang out The doo-wop music was the equivilant of No Doubt And the hamburgers are the size of your hometown Once you've eaten one, you felt like you ate an entire cow Drive-In's are where you see a flick The side speakers relay that sh** While you and your chick, get down to the power of love Thrusting up and down on that publically exposed dove You and your mom, watched a soap opera And you got love from your papa These are the days gone by, can't you tell? They were pretty, amazingly swell [Hook] Fifties and the sixties were the days gone by We can't get them back but we f**ing strive To recreate that environment no matter what The soap box derby, we don't even front Fifties and the sixties were the days gone by We can't get them back but we f**ing strive To recreate that environment no matter what Because Jack Kirby, doesn't front [Verse 2] Back then, predators didn't want to bone Back them, kids weren't confined to their homes In fact they were free to explore town Because for them this was their entire playground Making friends with the adults, and the kids Throwing a can at the wall did not get him a bid In fact it earned him a lollipop, from a cop And that's where I have to motherf**ing stop Because this is not the world we live in Where we can get something for a dollar and cent my friend Buy a hobby car and race it down a hill And show who's motherf**ing really real Because that was real life, not the internet Where we can play online, and disrespect Each other with harsh curse words but... In this world it wasn't absurd [Hook] Fifties and the sixties were the days gone by We can't get them back but we f**ing strive To recreate that environment no matter what The soap box derby, we don't even front Fifties and the sixties were the days gone by We can't get them back but we f**ing strive To recreate that environment no matter what Because Jack Kirby, doesn't front [Verse 3] I miss the days when we could do anything True representation of the USA dream So what if things got out of hand Look at the smiles of the kids, god damn It's so god damn irresistable It should be considered a statistic, yo With the ice cream, candy and toys So what if things went wrong with the god damn boys So what if they started smoking cigarettes? So what if they started drinking fourties, did the rest... Of the d**, I didn't consider them thugs I considered their moral structure to be f**ed up Because... That was the point of being a kid Learning that things were bad for you and sh** And shaping up your image to be swell and well That's what the fifties and sixties taught us well [Hook] Fifties and the sixties were the days gone by We can't get them back but we f**ing strive To recreate that environment no matter what The soap box derby, we don't even front Fifties and the sixties were the days gone by We can't get them back but we f**ing strive To recreate that environment no matter what Because Jack Kirby, doesn't front