Way Back When Lyrics - Whatever - Aimee Mann

Well, I guess that this is now the end 

Who'd have thought 

My old friend 

We signed the papers and we capped the pen 

But I remember you from way back when 

'good evening, ladies and gentlemen 

Welcome david-what's-his-name-again' 

Things change - 

The old cliche 

If we knew now what we knew yesterday 

Oh, we couldn't give it away. 

I was working at a record store 

I knew you, 

You knew the score 

Some kind of deal is what we're looking for 

Time came, and disappeared 

No one steered and 

It got weirder 

Help was needed, no one volunteered. 

Things change, 

You got to wait a bit 

What made me think that I could weather it? 

You're down before you even notice 

You've been hit 

And through it all I wondered where the bus 

Was taking you 

Who knew? 

And even though my one and one was always 

Making two 

I never thought that I was breaking you. 

We were victims of the old taboo 

But people change 

We changed too 

Just make it count before they get to you. 

Things change - 

Baby, hold the phone! - 

They'll shoot you down like you was al capone 

Oh, you better go it alone. 

Well, I guess that this is now the end 

The paper's signed - 

Forget the pen 

Wonder if we'll ever meet again?