If it seems like I've been lost   In let's remember   If you think I'm feeling older   And missing my younger days   Oh, then you should have known   Me much better   'Cause my past is somethin that never   Got in my way   Oh no      Still I would not be here now   If i never had the hunger   And I'm not ashamed to say   The wild boys were my friends   Oh   'Cause I never felt the desire   'Till their music set me on fire   And then I was saved, yeah   That's why I'm keeping the faith   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   Keeping the faith      We wore old matador boots   Only Flagg Brothers had them with a Cuban heel   Iridescent socks with the same color shirt   And a tight pair of chinos   Oh   I put on my shark skin jacket   You know the kind with the velvet collar   And ditty-bop shades   Oh yeah   I took a fresh pack of Luckies   And a mint called Sen-Sen   My old man's Trojans   And his Old Spice aftershave   Oh   Combed my hair in a pompadour   Like the rest of the Romeos wore   A permanent wave   Yeah      We were keeping the faith   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   Keeping the faith      You can get just so much   From a good thing   You can linger too long   In your dreams   Say goodbye to the   Oldies but goodies   'Cause the good ole days weren't always good   And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems      Learned stickball as a formal education   Lost a lot of fights   But it taught me how to lose OK   Oh   I heard about sex   But not enough   I found you could dance   And still look tough anyway   Oh yes I did   I found out a man ain't just being macho   Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food   Drank a lot of take home pay   I thought I was the Duke Of Earl   When I made it with a red-haired girl   In a Chevrolet   Oh yeah   We were keeping the faith   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   Keeping the faith      You know the good ole days weren't always good   And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems      I told you my reasons   For the whole revival   Now I'm going outside to have   An ice cold beer in the shade   Oh   I'm going to listen to my 45's   Ain't it wonderful to be alive   When the rock 'n roll plays   Yeah   When the memory stays   Yeah   I'm keeping the faith   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah   Keeping the faith   I'm keeping the faith   Yes I am