Social Distortion - "The Way Things Were" (Lyric Video)

"The Way Things Were" by @socialdistortion from the upcoming album 'Born To Kill', out on May 8, 2026
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Directed by Mike Ness & Josh Roush
Edited by Josh Roush
Produced by AntiCurrent Productions
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Social Distortion is Mike Ness, Jonny Wickersham, Brent Harding and David Hidalgo, Jr.

Produced and Mixed by D. Sardy and Mike Ness
Written by Mike Ness
Recorded at Sunset Sound Studio 3
Engineered and Edited by James Monti
Second Engineer and Guitar Technician - Cameron Barton
Additional Engineering & Editing by Geoff Neal
Additional Editing by Dan Monti
Assistant Engineer at Sunset Sound Alex Miller
Mastered by Stephen Marcusson at Marcusson Mastering

LYRICS

Throwing rocks at trains along the railroad tracks,
Dead end kids who’d slipped between the cracks
We spent our time getting high,
We did our best to get by
And we said goodbye to the way things were

No one said that life would be so hard,
So I planned out my escape with an old guitar
I wrote a song with a stolen riff,
If you ain’t got a song you ain’t got shit
And we said goodbye to the way things were

Sometimes I think of when we were young
And we didn’t have a care
Sometimes I wish that life would just stand still
We lit the fire when it all began,
Then we watched it all burn down again
And we said goodbye to the way things were

Sometimes I think of when we were young
And we didn’t have a care,
I wanna go back to a simpler place and time
As the night falls we shed a tear,
Watching all our freedoms disappear
And we said goodbye to the way things were

It was surely a stroke of luck now that I found love,
And I didn’t know how fortunate that I was
I said I’d hold on to that girl,
Till it’s time to leave this world
And we said goodbye to the way things were

Sometimes I think of when we were young
And we didn’t have a care,
Why do all good things come to an end?
Seems like it was just yesterday,
The flame of youth was never here to stay
And we said goodbye to the way things were

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