Those Were The Days Lyrics
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And dreamed of all the great things we would do
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
this song is about someone's contemplation of the dream in her youth that hasn't been reached, where her motivation is still exist yet, but now accompanied by logical thinking of self limitations because of her age isn't young anymore. At the critical time, she needs an extra boost that always was obtained when she was with her long time best friend which now she miss so much, along with the joyful and optimistic mind of youthful age...
Nostalgia...There's still a chance to see people we've lost for years. Friendship has no age.
I think it's more about that she has been drinking away all her life at tyhe tavern, when she was younger she dreamt of things to do, now in the end she never done them, she just kept drinking. I have always thought of this song as a sad song, that she regrets her life but these days I think that she aint dissapointed, the memories she has from her youth in the tavern is enough.
This is one song that is going to be played at my funeral :)
One of the best! It makes you cherish every moment we have so that we'll have no regrets of our lives when we look back in the future.
One of the best! It makes you cherish every moment we have so that we'll have no regrets of our lives when we look back in the future.
Her days drinking in the tavern are the happy days she remembers. Her life didn't go the way she thought it would but there's nothing in the song to say she had any problems due to drinking.
Her days drinking in the tavern are the happy days she remembers. Her life didn't go the way she thought it would but there's nothing in the song to say she had any problems due to drinking.
This is more about life happening while you're making other plans and seeing something, going somewhere that reminds you of what the old dreams were.
This is more about life happening while you're making other plans and seeing something, going somewhere that reminds you of what the old dreams were.
Funny, Paul McCartney found this song and produced Mary's recording of it right when the Beatles were splitting up. I think he may have imagined running into John Lennon years later and thinking "Those were the days"....
Funny, Paul McCartney found this song and produced Mary's recording of it right when the Beatles were splitting up. I think he may have imagined running into John Lennon years later and thinking "Those were the days".
I despise this song. there are not enough words in the English langauge, or any others, to expess how horrid this song is. I remember as a kid, my sister got mad at me when I litterally ripped this record off the turntable and flung it acorss the roon, shattering it to peices. I hated it then, and I hate it even more now.
This song in its day meant little to me because I was so young, although I remember I liked the melody. Now that I am so much older I get its sentiment and can be taken positively or not so positively depending on the listener.