Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire
For we believed in things and so we'd sing

Remember when the music
Brought us all together to stand inside the rain
And as we'd join our hands, we'd meet in the refrain
For we had dreams to live, we had hopes to give

Remember when the music
Was the best of what we dreamed of for our children's time
And as we sang, we worked, for time was just a line
A gift we saved, a gift the future gave

Don't you remember when the music
Was a rock that we could cling to so we'd not despair?
And as we sang, we knew we'd hear an echo fill the air
We'd be smiling then and we would smile again

Oh, all the times I've listened and all the times I heard
All the melodies I'm missing and all the magic words
And all the potent voices and the choices we had then
How I'd love to find, we had that kind of choice again

Remember when the music
Was the glow on the horizon of every newborn day
And as we sang, the sun came up to chase the dark away
And life was good, for we knew we could

Remember when the music
Brought the night across the valley as the day went down
And as we'd hum the melody, we'd be safe inside the sound
And so we'd sleep and we had dreams to keep

Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire
And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire
For we believed in things and so we'd sing and so we'd sing