Van Morrison - It Was Once My Life - Live at Montreux Lyrics

Lyrics It Was Once My Life - Live at Montreux - Van Morrison



There were people on the sidewalks (sidewalks)
Strolling down the avenues (avenues)
We were sitting outside in cafes (in cafes)
We were looking for the muse (for the muse)
Well I was locked in by the system
Where no freedom is the rule
Now I spend all my time (all my time)
Tryna make it understood (understood)
It once was my life (was my life)
That's what everybody said (everybody said)
Things we used to do (used to do)
And the people that were friends (that were friends)
I've got to make it mean something
At the end of the day
It once was my life (was my life)
I can't take that away (that away)
Trials and tribulations (trials and tribulations)
And stupidity still rules (it still rules, it still rules)
Some days it seems like (some days you know it seems like)
I'm on a ship of fools
It once was my life (was my life)
When my message was just the street (just the street)
Then it became something else (something else)
And now it's incomplete (incomplete)
I just got to get back to when
Can somebody please shed some light?
It used to be so simple (be so simple)
It used to be my life (be my life)
It used to be my life
Used to be my uptight
Trials and tribulations (trials and tribulations)
And stupidity still rules (it still rules, it still rules)
Some days it seems like (some days you know it seems like)
I'm still on a ship of fools
Well, I'm back here on the boards (on the board)
I can hear the engines roar (engines roar)
Everybody's got to pay (got to pay)
Some people have to pay more (pay more)
You can tell the people anything
Spoon-feed them anything you like
It used to be my life (be my life)
It used to be uptight (be uptight)
Now everything's so complicated (complicated)
Just to speak or use the phone (use the phone)
Some people wanna use me (want to use me)
'Cause they don't have their own (have their own)
Don't know who's round the corner,
Tryna sell me some more tripe
It used to be so simple (be so simple)
It used to be my life (be my life)
Used to be my life, baby (be my life)
It used to be my life
Used to be my life, baby (be my life)
It used to be my life (be my life)
It used to be my life, baby
It used to be my life
Used to be my life, baby (be my life)
It used to be uptight
Drop, drop, drop
Thank you very much, thank you



Writer(s): Van Morrison


Van Morrison - The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)
Album The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)
date of release
04-03-1997

1 Rough God Goes Riding
2 Fire in the Belly
3 This Weight
4 Waiting Game
5 Piper At the Gates of Dawn
6 Burning Ground
7 It Once Was My Life
8 Sometimes We Cry
9 If You Love Me
10 The Healing Game
11 Look What the Good People Done
12 At the End of the Day
13 Full Force Gale '96
14 St. Dominic's Preview
15 The Healing Game (Alternate Version)
16 Fire in the Belly - Alternate Version
17 Didn't He Ramble
18 The Healing Game - Jazz Version
19 Sometimes We Cry - Full Length Version
20 Mule Skinner Blues
21 A Kiss to Build a Dream On
22 Don't Look Back (with Van Morrison)
23 The Healing Game (with Van Morrison)
24 Sittin' on Top of the World
25 Mule Skinner Blues
26 Rough God Goes Riding - Live at Montreux
27 Foreign Window - Live at Montreux
28 Tore Down a la Rimbaud - Live at Montreux
29 Vanlose Stairway / Trans-Euro Train - Live at Montreux
30 Fool for You - Live at Montreux
31 Sometimes We Cry - Live at Montreux
32 It Was Once My Life - Live at Montreux
33 I'm Not Feeling It Anymore - Live at Montreux
34 This Weight - Live at Montreux
35 Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - Live at Montreux
36 Fire In the Belly - Live at Montreux
37 Tupelo Honey / Why Must I Explain - Live at Montreux
38 The Healing Game - Live at Montreux
39 See Me Through / Soldier of Fortune / Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)* / Burning Ground - Live at Montreux




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