Drive-By Truckers - Wilder Days lyrics

There's a picture of you standing next
To me in our wilder days
With abilities to circumvent anything that
Got in our way we had a drive that fell
In stark relief to the impending pain
Young and full of big beliefs that
Life could not sustain

Sometimes I see your face in my memories
With a look so full of glory that
The gods grew weak at the knees
Bounding through the doors of
Life's exalting reveries
Driving through the night
On rain-soaked streets the way it used to be
In our wilder days there was
Trouble to be made
There was pie to cut and cake to
Throw and muddy creeks to wade
There was scarcely any thought gave to
If I left or stayed in my wilder days



Now the days are getting shorter and
The years are counting down
As the sun gets dizzy watching us
As we go spinning around
I find it best to laugh at the
Absurdity of life above the ground
There's no comfort in survival but it's still
The best option that I've found

In our wilder days we
Were invincible and unafraid
Of cracks in the concrete and steel
That we were made of
Gravity defied, we had the gods on our side
Death to cheat below our feet
And yet we seldom died

In our wilder days we
Were invincible and unafraid
Of cracks in the concrete and steel
That we were made of
Gravity defied, we had the gods on our side
Death to cheat below our feet
And yet we seldom died

In our wilder days we
Were invincible and unafraid
Of cracks in the concrete and steel
That we were made of
Gravity defied, we had the gods on our side
Death to cheat below our feet
And yet we seldom died

We could so delight in the burning
Candlelight that would not fade
In our wilder days