Remember When The Music

Remember When The Music
by Harry Chapin
© Chapin Music (ASCAP)

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

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

Remember when the music
Brought us all together to stand inside the rain
And as we all joined hands, we would meet in the refrain,
For we had dreams to live, we had hopes to give.

And all the times I listened, and all the times I heard
All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words,
And all those 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 a glow on the horizon of every newborn day
And as we’d sang, the sun came up to chase the dark away,
And life was good, for we knew we could.

Do you 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, we had dreams to keep.

And I dream that something's coming,
And it's not just in the wind.
And it's not just for tomorrow,
And it's more than where we've been,
It’s something like a promise, that’s telling me "Begin"
I know we're needing something worth believing in.

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, and so we'd sing.
And so we'll sing, and so we'll sing.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Let Me Back Into Your Life CD.

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