Flashback Blues Lyrics - John Prine - John Prine

While window shopping through the past 

I ran across a looking glass 

Reflecting moments remaining in a burned out light 

Tragic magic prayers of passion 

Stay the same through changing fashions 

They freeze my mind like water on a winter's night 

Spent most of my youth 

Out hobo cruising 

And all I got for proof 

Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes 

So goodbye nonbeliever 

Don't you know that I hate to leave here 

So long babe, I got the flashback blues. 

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Photographs show the laughs 

Recorded in between the bad times 

Happy sailors dancing on a sinking ship 

Cloudy skies and dead fruit flies 

Waving goodbye with tears in my eyes 

Well, sure I made it but ya know it was as hell of a trip. 

Spent most of my youth 

Out hobo cruising 

And all I got for proof 

Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes 

And ten times what it grieves you 

That's how much more I hate to leave you now 

So long babe, I got the flashback blues. 

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Spent most of my youth 

Out hobo cruising 

And all I got for proof 

Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes 

So goodbye nonbeliever 

Don't you know that I hate to leave here 

So long babe, I got the flashback blues.