There was always that old man when a little boy You don't go near his house or even close And you passed his house you went across to the other side He would sit on his porch and inside himself cry Then 15 years later you found out that he died Then you went back home, and you crossed on his side And oh darlin memory is a strange thing It's like a distant passed world that we'll never remember but we'll never forget And oh darlin memory is a strange thing No matter how much we want to erase, to it we'll always cling Do you remember your first love? I do?at the time I thought she was perfect but oh man how I was wrong If I could just know then, what I do know now I would turn in all my jersies and I would gracefully back out There are lots of little things that we don't forget and we don't know why but we don't regret all the little mischevious things that we've done because aside from them life'd be no fun Now as a little boy, everything made me happy It could just be as simple as playin in a ditch or one of mom's homemade sandwiches I could dress up as some superhero, or some legendary figure to take my mind off things at hand?but now I can't