The Used To Be

They don't make the movies They don't make the cars They don't make the good food the way they used to Good lawd It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be no And what about the parties They ain't even close They don't sell the dream like they used to Everybody knows It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be Cause the used to be is gone What happened to the place that used to be there Used to be the place that would all ride by What happened to the food I would get there Things keep changing but don't feel right Tell me where to find someone around here Who knows a different time How I wish I could put it all back together, together They don't make the movies They don't make the cars They don't make the good food the way they used to Good lawd It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be no And what about the parties They ain't even close They don't sell the dream like they used to Everybody knows It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be Cause the used to be is gone What happened to the woman who lived there She would feed the neighborhood with a smile I don't see our spot, it used to be here Where they gonna go now Friday night Take me to somebody else around here From a different time Oh How I wish I could put this all back together, forever They don't make the movies They don't make the cars They don't make the good food the way they used to Good lawd It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be no And what about the parties They ain't even close They don't sell the dream like they used to Everybody knows It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be Cause the used to be is gone The good stuff ain't here no more My old spot ain't there no more And all my friends don't hang no more Ain't nothing like, like it used to be They don't make the movies They don't make the cars They don't make the good food the way they used to Good lawd It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be no And what about the parties They ain't even close They don't sell the dream like they used to Everybody knows It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be Cause the used to be is gone The good stuff ain't here no more My old spot ain't there no more And all my friends don't hang no more Ain't nothing like, like it used to be They don't make the movies They don't make the cars They don't make the good food the way they used to Good lawd It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be no And what about the parties They ain't even close They don't sell the dream like they used to Everybody knows It ain't nothing, nowhere nothing like Nothing like it used to be