Don’t Go Back to the Way We Were
- Sung to
- Beatles’ Back in the U.S.S.R.
- Written by
- Jo-Hanna Read
- Gaggle
- Seattle
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[Verse 1]
Sit in my apartment on a Friday night
Thinking of these COVID blues
Wondrin’ if the world can ever come out right
Can we take this chance to choose?
[Hook]
Don’t go back to the way we were
Now’s our chance for a whole new start, folks
Don’t go back to the way we were (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Been at home so long, we hardly drove our cars
Gee, it’s good to see the sky
Even see the Milky Way and all those stars
It’s enough to make you sigh
[Hook]
Don’t go back to the way we were
Now’s our chance for a whole new start, folks
Don’t go back to the way we were (yeah)
{Verse 3]
Open up the prisons, let the people out.
Find a way to feed the poor.
Medicare for all, it should be all about.
Black lives matter, kill no more!
[Hook]
Don’t go back to the way we were
Now’s our chance for a whole new start, folks
Don’t go back to the way we were (yeah)
[Bridge]
Well, that virus came and really knocked us out
Opened up our eyes
Killed the poor, the weak, the old, a rout
And brought our country too its knee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ees
Oh, come on!
[Hook]
Don’t go back to the way we were
Now’s our chance for a whole new start, folks
Don’t go back to the way
Don’t go back to the way
Don’t go back to the way
Don’t go back to the way we were.