When I Was Young - Nada Surf, Babelsberg Film Orchestra

It’s amazing how much time love saves you at first

When you rediscover your reason to work

And your aimless dreaming has found a target and

You normalize and greet all function returned

Came home early, a quarter to two

I don’t need more wine, I’m coming for you

We carry pictures in our pretend wallets

Of ourselves in heavily edited seventies

With better handwriting and longer days at the park

And dinners with no drama, the Professor, and Mary Ann

Came home early, a quarter to two

I don’t need more wine, I’m coming for you

When I was young

I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up

Now I’ve grown up

I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of?

When I was young

I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up

Now I’ve grown up

I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of?

What was that world I was dreaming of?

What was that world I was dreaming of?

Late summer return

Airless apartment I lean out the window

Deals on the regular shirts

Same fright delight as last year more so

When I was young

I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up

Now I’ve grown up

I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of?

What was that world I was dreaming of?

What was that world I was dreaming of?

Now I’ve grown up

I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of?

What was that world I was dreaming of?

What was that world I was dreaming of?