Standard (EADGBE)

 I was born of 1959 that'll be the day that rock'n'roll died

Far away on a dark and stormy night

 Brought into the new decade, the 60's and her pearly gates

 A hard rain fell and the times forever changed

In the back of a car with the wind in our hair

Speeding down the road going anywhere

 Was it true we were really going nowhere

And '68 rang like a ricochet the world arose to a nightmare day

 Some people found their voice and a world to change

 One small step for man was one giant step for mankind

How I wish that we could walk that way tonight

 On a Woodstock field in the heat of the night

Rock'n' roll music defined the times

The sound of generations collide

 These moments in time

Live on forever in my mind

Even though we've said goodbye

Live on forever in my mind

And the '70 king of rock'n'roll

In Gracelands lost his throne

There won't be any comebacks tomorrow

No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones

Why they were taken away? God only knows

We formed a band we were haunted by their ghosts

I remember it now like it was yesterday

Playing those guitars at a frantic pace

Somehow we got lost along the way

Through the London streets in a taxi cab

A radio played an epitaph

Imagine, the dream is over

Oh I've been silent way too long

You never thought I knew what was going on

You probably think that you were in this song

The tragedies behind the dreams

Belie the truth and the honesty

I have seen the dirt and the glory