Live 07 Dec 1984 version
[Spoken intro:] Alright! Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Alright! (crowd: Alright) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Alright! (crowd: Alright) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Alright! (crowd: Alright) Come on now! (crowd: Come on now) Alright! (crowd: Alright) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Whoa! (crowd: Whoa) Whoa! (crowd: Whoa) Whoa! (crowd: Whoa) Whoa! (crowd: Whoa) Alright! (crowd: Alright) Come on now! (crowd: Come on now) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah) (Clarence: Oh yeah) (crowd: Oh yeah) (Clarence: Oh yeah) (crowd: Oh yeah) (Clarence: Oh yeah) (crowd: Oh yeah) (chuckles). Can't this go as low as the big man! (cheers) I don't know. Now, this is a song that is both instructional in purpose and fun to dance to. I mean it's about ancient history. Do we have any history majors out there? (cheers) Alright. But now this ain't about the Mesopotamians and this ain't about the Trojans and this ain't about the Italians. I'm talking about personal stuff, things that you're gonna read about me in the National Enquirer after I die (cheers). Or if my girlfriend gets mad at me, you're gonna read about it while I'm still alive (cheers). In one of them tell-all books. You know, see when I was a kid, I was interested in three things. Now one of 'em was my father was big pool player, his father was, so I tried to learn how to play pool. Then the other one was the guitar I got interested in (cheers). And then the third one was... the one that everybody's interested in (cheers). That one. But then around it was around Christmastime when my mother, she took me to Sears, and for 69.95 she bought me this pooltable and like we went out and we tied it to the roof of the car and we drove it home but my father wouldn't let me have it downstairs so we put it up in my bedroom. So like I used to bring my girlfriends over and I would say "Dad, we're gonna go up in my room and play pool for a little while" (cheers). But, but like he used to sit right down there in the kitchen, right underneath my room so if he didn't hear the poolballs knocking around, or if he didn't hear the guitar playing, he had this broomstick that he used to bang on the ceiling all the time (cheers), trying to disrupt my concentration (cheers), ruin my fore (cheers). But anyway, I kinda got wise to him because like I used to pull the pooltable like over close to the bed and then like every once in a while I would just, I would just lean up and knock the balls around a little bit (cheers). Wow! But anyway, as I got older and matured, I gave up pool, and of the other two, the only one I really became good at was the guitar (cheers). But the third one, I'm still looking for some volunteers that wanna practice (cheers), practice (cheers), practice (cheers). Gotta... practice makes perfect (chuckles). Oh, I'm so lonely (chuckles). Anyway, in the end, all things must pass, and it ain't nothing but glory days leaving you behind (cheers)
You see, I had this friend, he was a big baseball player back in high school
And man, he could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool boy
I saw him the other night at this roadside bar, I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks, but all he kept talking about was
Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
Well now there's this girl, well she lives up the block, but back in school she could turn all the boys' heads
But sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks with her after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby, well they split up I guess, I guess about two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times, she says when she feels like crying, she starts laughing thinking about
Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
Alright everybody, express yourselves
Whoa!
Think I'm going down to the well tonight and I'm gonna drink till I get my fill
Well I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it, but I probably will
Yeah just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of
Well the time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of
Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
They'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
Alright!
Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Come on now! (crowd: Come on now)
Oh yeah! (crowd: Oh yeah)
Alright! (crowd: Alright)
Ah keep rocking now people
Don't ever be stopping
What else you're gonna do?
Whoa!
Come on boys
Don't let me down now
Playing drums
Cause I can hear that big clock ticking away, every minute of my life, everyday
It says Boss, you're 30, 31 (what), 32 (what), 33 (oh no), 34 (what), 35 (oh no)
You're, you're, you're, an adult!
Aah let's ??? down
Whoa!
Whoa!
Stop that clock!
I don't wanna grow, ever, ever
The above lyrics are for the live 07 Dec 1984 performance of GLORY DAYS at Leon County Civic Center in Tallahassee, FL, during the Born In The U.S.A. Tour.
List of available versions of GLORY DAYS on this website:
GLORY DAYS [Album version]