we had our health 

without the wealth 

 

just enough to 

wiggle around 

 

there was a plan 

we believed in 

 

it even had its own 

theme song 

 

and we knew it then 

it couldn’t stop anything 

 

we were just silent and cautious 

as we crept around our lives 

 

and we see it now 

try to recapture it somehow 

 

touching ourselves 

closing our eyes 

 

that time everything worked 

before it fell apart 

 

the time everything worked 

we sang along 

 

although things are worse

and the young keep getting it wrong

 

we still trace its outlines 

every time we touch