A Taste of Yesterday (feat. Dave Nachmanoff & Bart van der Zeeuw)

The places that were joyful once Now empty and deserted The street once filled with greeting smiles Now bids its guests farewell And you and I bear witness to the fading of our memories And all we see around us is a taste of yesterday When we were children how we tried To reach out to the future Not doubting for a second That it all would be ok And yet we'd never realized we'd leave the past behind us And all we'd see around us a mere taste of yesterday And oh, looking back to then I wonder if you, too, feel the same as I do And oh, do you remember still The dusty window sill On which we sat and reminisced til sunrise I wonder which traditions of The past are still remembered If anybody clung to them Or left them all behind I wish that I could fish them out from waters of their memories And you and I could get a taste of all their yesterdays And oh, looking back to then I wonder if you, too, contemplate as I do And oh, do you remember still The dusty window sill On which we sat and reminisced til sunrise The children of future will Pass down their new traditions Just as the kids of long ago Had their own games as well And maybe one day we will see them playing and remember That you and I can always find that taste of yesterday