Brighter Daze (Back Porch Version)

Brighter daze

Words & Music by Rees E. E. Shad

It's so much easier remembering all the things that we forgot

Then to look back to recall that better days in fact were not

It's the bright spots in the tapestry of time that we admire

More than the shadows on the edges marred by fire

Everyone’s resistant to the onslaught of the change

That forces in the difference where we only want the same

To Reassess the actions that we understood as right

Find empathy for someone with a different line of sight

And see brighter days weren't quite so bright

In fact those brighter days were someone else's night

It's an innocent illusion and disillusionment is rough

When the piper comes for payment and you just ain’t saved enough

To right the wrongs of inheritance we expected to deserve

The world will warp and weave with unanticipated curves

Funny how this life often throws us into change

It brings on alterations which we thought would stay the same

We need to reassess our understandings of what’s right

And empathize with someone else’s line of sight

Who saw brighter days as not so bright

Our brightest days were someone else's night