I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; read more

The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past read more

Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have
been."

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the read more

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.