The Way It Was

from Songs From The Middle by Eddie Perfect, the Brodsky Quartet, the Australian National Academy Of Music and Iain Grandage

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Susan disappeared on the way to the shops
Stopped to smell the roses and they called the cops
Now she'll never know how much that new dress cost
I think she liked it better the way it was

Mark was rich and powerful his life was charmed
But after work he still stuck a needle in his arm
He said 'I used to be a junior and now I'm the boss'
I think he liked it better the way it was

Don't you remember?
Skies were bluer
Ideas were newer
Don't you remember?
Tears were fewer
Lies were truer

Galileo told the truth and couldn't turn back
Showed the angry mob that the world wasn't flat
And he cried as they stretched his neck across that chopping block
'I think I liked it better the way it was'

When Jesus was a child his home-life wasn't good
All his Dad could talk about were nails and wood
And he thought as he hung from that old wooden cross
'I think I liked it better the way it was'

Don't you remember?
Time was longer
Wrong was wronger
And don't you remember?
We fixed things that were broken
Sleeping dogs weren't woken

It only takes one little dream to go up in smoke
Before we slam the shutters closed and give up hope
And we'll never get over that hurdle because
We think we liked it better the way it was

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from Songs From The Middle, released May 26, 2015

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