Guess You Had To Be There Lyrics - Janis Ian

Back in nineteen sixty three 

We walked a fine line 

We were taking to the streets 

Skating on a thin dime 

We were searching after truth and beauty 

Now they turn it into late night movies 

How can I explain 

That it's not the same 

Guess you had to be there to be where 

Love belonged to everyone 

Flowers in the long hair, we stood there 

Singing we shall overcome 

Knowing the eyes of the world were on us 

Knowing the whole world cared 

Guess you had to be there 

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In the summer of our youth 

We came together 

And we knew that our truth 

It would live forever 

We were gonna make the whole world honest 

When a bullet got the bravest of us 

Somehow nothing else was sacred 

And we all stood naked 

Guess you had to be there to be where 

Love belonged to everyone 

Flowers in the long hair, we stood there 

Singing we shall overcome 

Knowing the eyes of the world were on us 

Knowing the whole world cared 

Guess you had to be there 

Now we listen to the news 

And it seems all hope is gone 

Everybody feeling used 

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And there's nowhere left to run 

Sometimes it feels like the memory 

Is all that's left of our used-to-be 

But what can never be denied 

Is the way we changed inside 

Guess you had to be there to be where 

Love belonged to everyone 

Flowers in the long hair, we stood there 

Singing we shall overcome 

Knowing the eyes of the world were on us 

Knowing the whole world cared 

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