From the recording Living in the Past Lane
A deeply personal song about the Beasel Brothers’ parents, the passing years, and the realization that moments that once seemed ordinary eventually become the memories we treasure most. Youth disappears almost unnoticed, parents grow older, people we love leave us, and suddenly decades seem to have passed in an instant. The song took on an even deeper meaning when it became the last song played for the brothers’ mother as she was passing away—a final connection between music, family, and a lifetime of memories. There is sadness here, but also gratitude for all the years that came before. Time may take the years and the people we love, but it can never erase what they meant to us. A fitting and deeply personal ending to Living in the Past Lane.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Well, I'm looking back, and now I'm turning back
All the pages to the days gone past
Growing with the changes that gave way to circumstance
I remember your cooking and homemade apple pie
And dad playing ball with us, teaching us how to drive
I remember being ill at times with you there at my side
For this song I sing this one I bring with all my love tonight
[Chorus]
[bass guitar enters]
Where has all the time gone by?
When laughter was the language shared, and tears were never feared
Where has all the time gone by?
[Verse 2]
I guess you've known we must've grown
One day we'd be on our own
Packing trunkfuls of memories for the lonely days
One moved to Fort Lauderdale to the comfort of the sun
Starting life all over, finding a new love
One stayed in the hometown and now lives all alone
Seeking out a living, calling independence his home
[Chorus]
Where has all the time gone by?
When laughter was the language shared, and tears were never feared
Where has all the time gone by?
[Verse 3]
Now I'm in Chicago, still I can't forget
Forever wanting the country, yet having no regrets
For the changes we all go through seem to happen all at once
Live and learn and love and hurt and try and readjust
And in the end we all survive as we look back into our lives
And we wonder, oh we wonder, and we wonder, oh we wonder
And we wonder where has all the time gone by