Lyrics

Wasn’t it sweet
To have warm lentil soup in the cold?
And parents in love— or so we were told
Time enough then to play
How the years whiled away
Singing lullabies that never grew old


Oh, oh
Growing up shouldn’t mean growing apart
How’d we finish when we didn’t start?
I got lost on the way to my heart


Nevertheless, in the end, it’s still us
Ever remember the way that it was
Severing anything left to discuss of our youth
Letting dust to the truth in defeat


But wasn’t it sweet
To have brothers whom you’d never hold
And bread from the food bank to fetter for gold
‘til and why, to be torn,
Would a shrike hide a thorn?
Just a memory or two to be sold


Oh, oh
Growing up shouldn’t mean growing apart
How’d we finish when we didn’t start?
I got lost on the way to my heart


Nevertheless, in the end, it’s still us
Ever remember the way that it was
Severing anything left to discuss of our youth
Letting dust to the truth in defeat


But wasn’t it sweet to have—

Oh, oh
Growing up shouldn’t mean growing apart
How’d we finish when we didn’t start?
I’m still lost on the way to my heart


Nevertheless, in the end, it’s still us
Ever remember the way that it was
Severing anything left to discuss of our youth
Letting dust to the truth in defeat


But wasn’t it sweet?