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The Way It Was Lyrics by Brooke Annibale

Silence Worth Breaking

2011

[Verse 1]
This place doesn't feel the same anymore
Can't trace how or why it seems to change
But it seems it's changed
Like an old friend that I used to know so well
But I've been gone so long
That there's so much we can't tell
[Chorus]
Oh, the skyline, the street signs
Oh, fading away the further I drive
Oh, I can't help but realize
I can never go back to the way it was
I can never go back to the way it was
[Verse 2]
And I walk the streets that used to hold my life
And everything I see is just a picture in my mind
Of all that's behind me, that haunts, that reminds me
Of the beauty and the pain of what's gone
[Chorus]
Oh, the skyline, the street signs
Oh, fading away the further I drive
Oh, I can't help but realize
I can never go back to the way it was
I can never go back to the way it was
[Post-Chorus]
The way it was, the way it was
The way it was, the way it was
The way it was, the way it was
The way it was
[Bridge]
It's a long road now and there's no turning back
You ought to know that, know that
It's a long road now and there's no turning back
You ought to know that, know that
[Outro]
I can never go back to the way it was
I can never go back to the way it was
Credits
Brooke Annibale

Brooke Annibale

About “The Way It Was” by Brooke Annibale

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"The Way It Was" appears on "Silence Worth Breaking" in 2011.

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