[ti:Simple Days] [ar:Babyface] [al:The Day] [00:00.00]Babyface--Simple Days [00:23.00]I was born on the northside of a midwestern town [00:28.00]There was nine of us living in a three bedroom house [00:34.00]Didn’t have much money, but we made do [00:40.00]’Cause Momma worked all day long [00:43.00]And Daddy did too [00:46.00]Did all they could [00:48.00]Made sure we had clothes and food [00:51.00]Went to public schools and we followed public rules [00:57.00]We used second hand books [01:00.00]but oh I didn’t mind the books [01:03.00]Momma taught us early in life [01:06.00]Everybody’s gotta struggle sometime [01:09.00][02:19.00][03:05.00][03:27.00][03:52.00]Bring back those simple times of yesterday [01:14.00][02:23.00][03:09.00][03:33.00][03:56.00]When a man was a man [01:17.00][02:26.00][03:12.00][03:36.00][03:59.00]And a friend was a friend [01:20.00][02:30.00][03:16.00][03:40.00][04:03.00]Bring back those simple times of yesterday [01:25.00][02:35.00][03:21.00][03:45.00][04:08.00]When you said what you meant [01:28.00][02:38.00][03:24.00][03:48.00][04:11.00]And you meant what you said [01:33.00]Had a friend named Bobby [01:35.00]Who always kept his word [01:37.00]We went through schoolyard fights [01:40.00]Had a thing for pretty girls [01:43.00]Didn’t cost much money [01:46.00]To see the picture show [01:49.00]So we hopped the bus into town [01:52.00]That’s where all the girlies used to go [01:55.00]Fifty cents would buy us popcorn for two [02:00.00]’Cause Booby’s girl she worked there [02:03.00]And sometimes she’d break the rules [02:06.00]Picnics in the summer [02:09.00]Wouldn’t wake up ’till noon [02:12.00]And even though Bobby’s gone now [02:15.00]I can still hear him laugh [02:17.00]In the middle of June [02:42.00]Sometimes I sit, I wonder [02:45.00]I reminisce [02:47.00]I think of all the good times [02:50.00]That we had in our lives [02:53.00]Sometimes I can’t get over [02:56.00]How wonderful those days were [02:59.00]Back in our lies [03:01.00]Simple days for simple times