Lyrics for I've Loved These Days as interpreted by fletch699

I've Loved These Days Lyrics
Now we take our time, so nonchalant
And spend our nights so bon vivant
We dress our days in silken robes
The money comes
The money goes
We know it's all a passing phase

We light our lamps for atmosphere
And hang our hopes on chandeliers
We're going wrong, we're gaining weight
We're sleeping long and far too late
And so it's time to change our ways
But I've loved these days

Now as we indulge in things refined
We hide our hearts from harder times
A string of pearls, a foreign car
Oh we can only go so far
On caviar and cabernet

We drown our doubts in dry champagne
And soothe our souls with fine cocaine
I don't know why I even care
We'll get so high and get nowhere
We'll have to change our jaded ways
But I've loved these days

So before we end and then begin
We'll drink a toast to how it's been
A few more hours to be complete
A few more nights on satin sheets
A few more times that I can say
I've loved these days

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Hyperfried
02-02-2006

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This is really a pretty obvious song, as to its meaning. How can we have strayed so far from the true pleasures of this world? Instead, we blind ourselves from the beauty, by indulging ourselves in meaningless, worldly pleasures. As he put it, "We'll get so high... and get nowhere."

A great song, in its meaning, and in its delivery.

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ThaneOfNothingness
05-14-2007

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I occurred to me that this could be a great graduation song. If only it didn't mention cocaine... that wouldn't set to well with the administration in my school, methinks.

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terpfan8991
06-12-2007

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yeah, this song is really sad, just listening to the piano alone makes you want to cry, billy joel really knows how to cut to the soul of you

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TheThornBirds
01-30-2009

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What I like is that this song views "sin" more as immaturity than EVIL. It's not saying, how could I have been so stupid! I hate myself! I was so awful! I don't deserve happiness I've been such a bad person. It's just awakening into a newfound matirity. It isn't about renewal or repenting, to me it's about growing up. And you'll always love your childhood, like he says "I've loved these days" but you'll also come to see how selfish or immature or just narrow-minded you were and go, "Wow! I've really grown!" It's more about nostalgic regret than self-loathing.

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