When We Were Young

Lyrics

[Spoken Intro] I'm also always getting this, uh, dream that I'm a headless torso in Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator. Um, I don't really think there's a performer alive who hasn't had that dream at one time or another, and that was sorta the basis for this next song, this whole idea that, uh, you think there's something wrong with you but really it's experiences that everybody's had. This is a song called "When We Were Young" [Song] Did you ever have a dream as a child? That you were flying through the air In your underwear And you landed in a playground filled with boys and girls And they scoffed at you and they jeered As your eyes welled up in tears And they spat on you, and they told you that you smell? Well me, I knew that dream, I knew it well And did you ever know a man as a child? Who would walk you home from school And he'd let you swim in his pool And he'd always wear his raincoat in the summertime And he stunk of the cheapest brandy But he always had lots of candy And he'd give you some if you promised not to tell? Well me, I knew that man, I knew him well Oh say, summertime raincoat-wearing, candy-giving guy from my childhood Where have you gone? Did they finally take you away to that place That's surrounded by barbed wire and gates Where the people just make licence plates Can it be no more What it was before When we were young? Y'know what I mean? And did you ever have a friend as a child? Who lived underneath your bed And they said it was all in your head But you swore that you saw him laughing at night in your windowsill And he had a long purple beard And big floppy rabbit ears And he would tell you to do things that you wouldn't ordinarily Like light a fire, or play with guns And when you asked him who he was He said that he was an angel sent from hell? Well me, I knew that friend, I knew him well Oh say, purple-bearded, hell-sent, floppy-eared man from childhood Where have you gone? Take me away to that far off land Where the children only eat ice-cream all day And I promise you I will obey Can it be no more What it was before When we were young? Can it be no more What it was before When we were young?