Memory Lane

You have gotten much thinner You're lookin' like a shadow It's from dwelling on the might-have-beens Living in a time-warp To whom am I speaking? Some ghost from the past? While you think about old glories You're fading real fast You take too many trips down memory lane You take too many trips down memory lane You take another trip down memory lane You go down there once too often and you're likely to remain You play old music Well some of it's a bore To me it's all irrelevant Like Haight Street and love beads Still you want to make a statement But this nostalgia thing hangs on Your friends all miss the point cause They see where you've gone They've seen that you've gone to... It's another flat testimony Inflated with emotional gas Though the truth never changes Shouldn't you, couldn't you Shouldn't you, couldn't you (I'm trying) Couldn't you, shouldn't you, couldn't you, won't you! You make a list of all your failures You count all your heartaches Please sit up straight at the table And eat your words Much too weak I think complaining is a crime And like the boy who cries wolf We don't believe you anymore, we watch you Travel back in time to...