Brian DeBoer: Love When We Were Young; My Secret

Brian bestows upon us one piece of foolish happiness and another of savvy sadness. (I have not heard these songs yet, but have gleaned these adjectives from Brian's band, The Savvy Fools)

(Happy song)
Love When We Were Young

E
Was I that boy when you were young,
C#m
Back when babbling was our mother tongue
G#m
And life was care free, full of joy?
A B
Was I the boy, was I the boy?
Were you the girl when I was small?
Did we see each other in the hall?
When we past did we both sort of twirl?
Were you the girl, were you the girl?

C#m A E
Remember love when we were young
When mash notes were forever sung
C#m G#m A
And every romance seemed like wedding bells had rung?
B A
Remember love when we were young
B A E B
Remember love when we were young

Were you the girl when I was young
Who would skip and twirl out in the sun
Which had bleached your hair right to the curl?
Were you the girl, were you the girl?
Was I the boy who watched you skip
Just to hear whose name the rhymes would slip?
If I heard my name I'd act all coy
Was I the boy, was I the boy?

Remember love as it was then
We'd all fall time and time again
Then get back up to try once more
Just like before, just like before
No, time can't hold a flame to youth
Though we all get burned, to tell the truth,
'Cause love is still a silly game
But it's not the same, it's not the same

(Sad song)
My Secret

I've got the perfect secret
The truth is more than you can know
Even though
With every word I speak it
Yet it is thinly veiled below
Below the light snow

I wish that I could overlook
The shred that's shredding my mind
I wish that villain never took what he took, what a crook
I wish that I could lose the hook,
Which when he left he left behind,
But then I'd be an open book and you would know my secret

I have a haunted closet
The skeleton it is my own
Broken bone
And who knows what you'll posit
In the dark I cannot heal
Or I may reveal

The secret I defend
Upon the oath to my best friend
I'll hold it to the end
Although my life is just pretend

My voice remains unspoken
But if you read between the lines
There are signs
I still protect his token
The fetish I could not decline
It's his but it's mine