[Intro: NKOTB & All]
Hey, hey
Oh-oh, oh
[Verse 1: NKOTB]
Tonight
Replay it in your mind
Like it was yesterday
We had that secret place
Where we would hide
And count the stars in the sky
And the promises we made were for life
[Pre-Chorus: Rick Astley]
And I know the years go by
But it's nothing we can't rewind
[Chorus: All]
Bring back the time
The heart, it never changes
And inside we're still the same kids
We were back in '89
So bring back the time
You know we still got the magic
There's nothing that can take away this
Feeling that we have tonight
[Post-Chorus: All]
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Bring back the time
[Verse 2: Salt-N-Pepa]
We came in the door
We said it before
Back in the days we was young, we had a ball
Bikinis; small
Heels tall
Hangin' all day at the beach and the mall
Like Rick, we rolled
New Kids, En Vogue
Plus a pinch of Salt-N-Pepa seasoning
Here we go
Deja vu
Tell you what we gon' do
We gon' bring it back with you, for real
[Pre-Chorus: NKOTB]
And I know the years go by
But it's nothing we can't rewind
[Chorus: All]
Bring back the time
The heart, it never changes
And inside we're still the same kids
We were back in '89
So bring back the time
You know we still got the magic
There's nothing that can take away this
Feeling that we have tonight
[Post-Chorus: All]
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh (You always bring it back for me)
Bring back the time
[Bridge: En Vogue]
Let's go team, let's go
Let's go team, let's go
Come on
Let's go team, let's go (Let's go back)
Hey
Let's go team, let's go (Back in time)
Let's go, yeah
Let's go team, let's go (Are you ready?)
Let's go
Let's go team, let's go
Let's go!
[Pre-Chorus 2: Rick Astley & All]
Yeah, I know the years go by (The years go by, yeah)
But tonight (Tonight, tonight, tonight)
We're gonna rewind the time
[Chorus: All]
Bring back the time
The heart, it never changes
And inside we're still the same kids
We were back in '89 (Yeah)
So bring back the time
You know we still got the magic
There's nothing that can take away
This feeling that we have tonight
[Outro: All]
(No, no, no, no, no)
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
Why don't you
Bring back the time?
Bring Back the Time was written by Tuomo Korander & Tommi Vatanen & Marcella Brailsford & Lars Halvor Jensen & Donnie Wahlberg.
Bring Back the Time was produced by Donnie Wahlberg & BigBadBeats & Deekay.
New-kids-on-the-block released Bring Back the Time on Fri Mar 04 2022.
Good Morning America (March 3, 2022)
NKOTB member Donnie Wahlberg
Of course it’s very complicated to coordinate so many artists of this magnitude, who all have careers and lives and families, including just in my own band. But it’s easy to overcome those complications when you’re so inspired. Every single artist was so excited to jump...
NKOTB member Donnie Wahlberg on how the song came to be:
I was driving from Boston to New York [last] summer after New Kids had played Fenway Park. My songwriting partner, Lars Jensen, called me and was like, “I have this track.” I was literally sitting in the car on the way to New York and was lik...