The Way It Was Back Then

I reminisce about my salad days
Bell bottom blues jeans and purple haze
Doing a doobie was so far out man
Feeling groovy was all part of the plan
Incense peppermints psychedelic lights
Getting mellow yellow and tripping on Friday nights
Out of sight
I had an old Chevy that car was so cool
I was rocking down the highway on the way to school
Sometimes we'd get together and go cruising downtown
Searching for the chicks that we never found
I can still feel my hair blowing in the wind
And singing everybody must get stoned again again
And again

Seventeen was so much fun
We raised a little hell but never hurt no one
Walking on the edge but never really falling in
Ain't no sin
Getting stoned every once and a while
Thinking about it now it just makes me smile
And if I could I'd do it all over again
The way it was back then
The way it was back then

It's such a bummer those days have slipped away
I was just seventeen and it seems like yesterday
By the way

I was playing at a rock n roll bop
In walked a girl that made my heart stop
A hippy chick who thought love was free
And I'll be damned if she wasn't looking at me
That brown eyed girl said I wanna hold your hand
She took me out back and led me to the promise land
Oh man

Seventeen was so much fun
We raised a little hell we never hurt no one
Walking on the edge but never really fallin in
Ain't no sin
Getting stoned every once in a while
Thinking about it now just makes me smile
And if I could I'd do it all over again
The way it was back then
The way it was back then
Seventeen was so much fun
We raised a little hell we never hurt no one
Walking on the edge but never really fallin in
Ain't no sin
Getting stoned every once in a while
I think about it now it just makes me smile
And if I could I'd do it all over again
The way it was back then
The way it was back then
The way it was back then
The way it was back then
The way it was back then
The way it was back then
The way it was back then