Wide Eyes and Blank Stares

from Slow by Joost van Gisbergen

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Hey doc, come pick me up and take me back to eighty five
When everything was simple and everyone I knew alive
We had no mobile phones but all our friends lived down the street
Our friends were everyone our age that we happened to meet

The wide-eyedness I now miss
From before my cares
That ignorance was bliss
It beats those blank stares

Nothing we messed up couldn't be fixed within a day
A few hours from home could feel like half a world away
We couldn't go online but there wasn't much that we had to know
And what we knew was true because our parents told us so

When I think back to those uncomplicated days
It always seems like it was such a perfect phase
But trading it for today is something that I'd never do
When I think of what I've done and when I think of you

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from Slow, released June 8, 2014
Music and words by Joost van Gisbergen
Performed by Joost van Gisbergen (vocals, guitars) and Chris van der Linden (keyboards)
Basic track recorded by Tim Antonius in October 2013, mixed by Chris van der Linden

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