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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday gave us a pretty straight forward prompt of Past, Present, Future.

The goal is to take the prompt and profile a song that has it part of its lyrics or title.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Rules of Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Glory Days

Past memories often have us focusing on the joys of our youth especially as we get older. Growing up in New Jersey as a High School student the song “Glory Days” by Bruce Springsteen resonates with me more each passing day. That is why I choose Glory Days because it is a song about the past.

Bruce Springsteen and I both attended K-8 Parochial Schools in NJ For Bruce it was St. Rose of Lima School in Freehold and I attended St. Margaret’s in Morristown. Many of his songs resonate on what life was like in the 1960’s and 1970’s in the Garden State. One song in particular that talks about the past is his “Glory Days”.

That song was inspired by an actual event that was part of a NY Times Article. Springsteen sings about a chance encounter with an old friend who was a star baseball player in high school. This fellow is Joe DePugh, and the encounter really did happen. In the summer of 1973, DePugh was walking in to a bar called the Headliner in Neptune, New Jersey while Springsteen was walking out. Bruce went back in, where he and his old friend talked about the good old days until the bar closed. 

For November I am also participating in a 30 Day Album #Coach4adayChallengs so I listened to the entire 1984 album Born In The U.S.A. that this song was included on. There were seven Top 10 hits on this disc including “Glory Days”

Lyrics to Glory Days

Here is the Official Music Video

Next week the prompt will be Birth, Death, Life