We were seven and ten when I first wondered when   Our hearts would give us away   The die had been cast and faces gone past   Who pray that chance comes again   And we raged in the streets to the sound of defeat   As our debts grew larger each day   But in place of regret were the good times we spent   In beds where once we lay      And I had to ask I just had to ask   Where it all slips away   And I had to ask I just had to ask   Where it all slips away   And you held onto me saying tenderly   You’ll go on, just go on   And you held onto me saying tenderly   You’ll go on, just go on, and on, and on      It was a time to remember   We ran from forever   A time to remember   We’ll never forget it   We were young   We were singing   Our lives were beginning   We covered up the cracks for a while      As we fell for the breeze of the underground sleaze   We ran and danced together   And the boys in the bar might not get all that far   But they never had it better      And I had to ask …      It was a time to remember….      And maybe one day   We’ll think about what got away   And maybe one day   We’ll think of faces and the names   It’s all the same   We drink alone in penniless lane   Through the tears and the lies and the lost cold lonely nights      A time to remember…. X 2      When we sang for the good life   When we sang for the good life