When you find you can't somehow
Make it like all the rest
You won't need to scrounge around for someone else

Torn between the unknown
And the place that you call home
And the life you want but have never known

There was a time
You could put it out of your mind
Leave it all behind
There was a time
That time is gone

What has a life of fifty years
In this town done for you
Except to earn your name and place on a barstool?

You spent your whole life in this county
You've never been out of state
You say you're gonna make it out before it's too late

There was a time
You could put it out of your mind
Leave it all behind
There was a time
That time is gone

There was a time when nothing seemed to make much sense
That's turned more intense
And all the crutches you've kept around
Now are nowhere to be found

Remember when you didn't have
To look ahead or behind you?
There was always something right there to do

But now it's life in some kind of trap
Looking for a way out
Well, you keep moving on
That's what it's all about

There was a time
You could put it out of your mind
Leave it all behind
There was a time
That time is gone

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Writer(s): JAY FARRAR, JEFF TWEEDY, MICHAEL HEIDORN