Its better to know the worth Of what youve got before its gone But you cant let yourself get stuck Cuz youre afraid you might be wrong Your nostalgic for 68 Im nostalgic for the 99 But sometimes thinking back too much Can make you close your eyes Cuz what we do today Matters both today and tomorrow
The point of learning history Is to build something new I don’t care what you’ve read about Unless it impacts what you do You wanna recreate 68? You wanna recreate 99? Try learning their hard lessons Reflect and then and refine Cuz the good old days sucked sometimes If you ask those were there And the answers werent just blowin in the wind They were put there What we do today Matters both today and tomorrow
History gets simplified With the passing on of time And causes and effects Sometimes take decades to define I seen the long shadow of 68 By the ruins of the Berlin Wall I seen the long shadow of 68 In the streets of Seattle And looking back from here now All the pieces all seem to fit Sometimes its hard to notice the changing world When your right inside of it But without us the future Is a boat without a sail Without our best attempts We set the next ones up to fail What we do today Matters both today and tomorrow