Harry Chapin - Remember When the Music lyrics

Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung
With silver wire and as we sang the words it
Would set our minds on fire
For we believed in things, and so we'd sing

Remember when the music
Brought us all together to
Stand inside the rain
And as we joined our hands
We'd meet in the refrain
For we had dreams to live
And we had hopes to give

Don't you remember when the music
Was the best of what we dreamed
Of for our children's time?
And as we sang we worked for we
Knew time was just a line
A gift we saved, a gift the future gave

Oh, all the times I listened and
All the times I heard
All the melodies I'm missing and
All the magic words
And all those potent voices and
The choices we had then
How I'd love to find we had
That kind of choice again

Remember when the music
Was a glow on the horizon
Of every newborn day
And as we sang the sun came
Up to chase the dark away
And life was good, for we knew we could

Remember when the music
Brought the night across the valley
As the day went down
And as we'd hum the melody we'd
Be safe inside the sound
And so we'd sleep, for we had dreams to keep

And I dream that something's coming and
It's not just in the wind
It's more than just tomorrow
It's more than where we've been
It offers me a promise, it's tellin' me begin
I know we're needin' something
Worth believin' in

Remember when the music
Came from wooden boxes strung
With silver wire and as we sang the words it
Would set our minds on fire
For we believed in things, and so we'd sing
And so we'd sing

Hear me now
Oh, I wanna hear the voices ringing
And hear the people singing
Oh, sing it to me now
Hear that music in your heart, whoa