History Books

[Verse 1]
What's that you say, I knew you when?
You don't look too much like my friend
Those history books, filled up with crooks
Stories I don't want to read again

[Pre-Chorus]
I've tried to live
One thousand years from here

[Chorus]
When I think of it now
It just brings me down when I think of you now
And when I think of it now
It just brings me down when I think of you now

[Verse 2: Bruce Springsteen]
I'm keeping time, one day goes by
I try to live 'til the next one
But these history books, full of haunted looks
From people I don't want to see again

[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause I've learned to live
But they try to hold me here

[Chorus]
When I think of it now
It just brings me down when I think of it now
And when I think of it now
It just brings me down when I think of you now

[Bridge]
You just remind me of the nights of smoke and dirty jokes
Darkened rooms with lonely ghosts
And they were beautiful some time ago
But time keeps rollin' us on

[Chorus]
When I think of it now
It just brings me down when I think of you now
And when I think of you now
It just brings me down when I think of you now

[Bridge]
You just remind me of the nights of smoke and dirty jokes
Darkened rooms with lonely ghosts
And they were beautiful some time ago
But time keeps rollin' us on

[Outro]
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on
Rollin' us on