Looking Back Lyrics - Dan Hill

Looking back at public school 

Reading playboy magazine 

Insisting that the articles 

Were the only things we'd read 

Thinking then that love was meant to 

Conquer 

And if a girl said she liked you 

Then you'd bonk her 

Don't try to lay that mush on me 

Looking back a high school 

Getting drunk for the local dance 

Lonely boys - nervous girls 

Grappling with romance 

Thinking then that love 

Meant something frightening 

A sudden end as brutal 

As bolts of lightening 

Don't know what it was, but it scared me 

From one night stands to wedding bands 

To struggling to stay free 

Watching time move faster 

As hold on helplessly 

As love smolders waiting to be tamed 

We grow older staying much the same 

Looking back a college life 

Seemed like such a compromise 

Unsure of my direction 

Using brains as my disguise 

Thinking then that love meant to 

Remember 

You only felt its warmth 

When you surrendered 

Don't know what it was, but it scared me