When We Were Winning

Oh, when we were 17 Our life was like a film When we were 17 The sky was always tangerine We ran through streets at night Under starlight We roam the streets at night When we were winning Oh, wild was the world And wild we burned We were kings of the streets Not yet beaten by defeat But now it's hard to see Through a fog of memories But I remember When we were winning Now my friends are unemployed Not needed in this world Pushed down by this town And always turned down But in dreams at night They can sometimes recall When we were heroes When we were winning What have we done to our lives? We could have been anything We gave it our love, for what? This is the time (ah ah ah) Oh, it's in the air at night There is a wind coming in The day's dying Oh, it's so beautiful There's something happening somewhere I take the bus into town All I see is laughing And we are winning (ah ah ah) Soon, I grow older (ah ah) But God knows (ah ah) I haven't lived yet (ah ah) Before tonight's a memory (ah ah) Let's go out (ah ah) I am still young (ah ah) Ah ah ah ah ah Ah ah ah ah