Wishing All These Old Things Were New

Watching while some old friends do a line

Holding back the want to end my own addicted mind

Wishin' it was still the thing even I could do

Wishin' all these old things were new.

Watching while some young men go to jail

And they show it all on TV just to see somebody fail

And I guess there's not a single thing a man like me can do

Wishin' all these old things were new.

Wishin' all these old things were new

Good times like the roaring 20's and the roaring 80's too

Thinking about the good old days before it all fell through

Wishin' all these old things were new.

The kids don't want my cigarettes around

They say it's time that dad should lay tobacco down

But if I could start all over guess I'd still do what I do

Wishin' all these old things were new.

Wishin' all these old things were new

Good times like the roaring 20's and the roaring 80's too

Thinking about the good old days before it all fell through

Wishin' all these old things were new.

Wishin' all these old things were new