If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone
Still then the spirit
In her children's children's children
It lives on

If you've lost your faith in love of music
Oh the end won't be long
Because if it's gone for you, I too may lose it
And that would be wrong

I've tried so hard to keep myself from falling
Back into my bad old ways
And it chars my heart to always hear you calling
Calling for the good old days
Because there were no good old days
These are the good old days

It's not about, tenements and needles
And all the evils in their eyes
And the backs of their minds
Daisy chains and school yard games
A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow

The Arcadian dream has all fallen through
But the Albion sails on course
Let's man the decks and hoist the rigging
The pig mans found the source
And there's twelve rude boys on the oars

See the good old days


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    To me this is about people who have given up on modern life and see instead a call for the "good old days" or the times when things were simpler, easier, the music was better or love was more pleasant. I think the song is an answer to someone like that, telling them that if they've lost their faith in love and music, if they are calling for these "good old days" then the end won't be long, they'll be doomed to see everything as worse than before. I think it's an important song and a good one. The idea that there "weren't no good old days" is also important. To remember that in times where some things might have been better there were other problems, and that we have no more problems now than we had in the past. It's a call for people to live in the moment and quit looking into the past in reminiscence, and instead make today what you can. Because the past, "the good old days" aren't as good as you dream they were.

    BuckWilderon March 14, 2007   Link

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