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The Good Old Days

by Ron Pope

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“What if, instead of hurting me, you just decided not to?” I write songs because I’m terrible about talking about my feelings; with a pen in my hand, I’m infinitely more open than I am in my real life. It’s hard to ask people to treat you how you deserve to be treated. (This is one of those feelings that I am grateful to be on the other side of, now that I’m married to someone who actually cares about and is careful of my feelings.)

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When the babies are grown up,
And they move so far away,
Live their lives, only call sometimes, we’ll learn to be OK.
But one day we’ll long for the chaos of this crowded, messy house,
‘Cause the good old days are happening right now.

I will remember you walking towards me in that dress,
Long after I’ve forgotten my own name.
As every other thing about me cracks and fades away,
The way I love you stays and stays and stays.

When the babies are grown up,
And they move so far away,
Live their lives, only call sometimes, we’ll learn to be OK.
But one day we’ll long for the chaos of this crowded, messy house,
‘Cause the good old days are happening right now.

I used to carry you twenty blocks home on my back,
Late nights when your shoes would hurt your feet.
Seems a thousand lives ago, but the memory’s just as sweet,
And you kept me safe from much worse things than glass out in the street.

When the babies are grown up,
And they move so far away,
Live their lives, only call sometimes, we’ll learn to be OK.
But one day we’ll long for the chaos of this crowded, messy house,
‘Cause the good old days are happening right now.

May I get to wake beside you twenty thousand mornings more,
May the only thing that we don’t have enough of soon be born.
May we live to love each other even more than we do now somehow.

When the babies are grown up,
And they move so far away,
Live their lives, only call sometimes, we’ll learn to be OK.
But one day we’ll long for the chaos of this crowded, messy house,
‘Cause the good old days are happening right now.
‘Cause the good old days are happening right now.

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released January 12, 2022
Ron Pope - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, production
Kristin Weber - vocals, violin
Paul Hammer - studio engineer, mixing, mastering, acoustic guitar, piano, production
Blair Clark - executive producer

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Platinum recording independent artist, Ron Pope, made a name for himself in the early days of music streaming with the viral success of his song, “A Drop in the Ocean” - which has now been streamed over 1 billion times going platinum in the US and double platinum in Sweden. ... more

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