WE WERE



performed on:

Fans fell in love with this song when it was released as a single a month ahead of CARTOONS. Produced with the same densely-layered precision that made ON SUCH A NIGHT so grand, it was awash in heavenly sounds and truly absorbed the listener. Not so for the bizarre album version, a completely different recording, which turns the whole thing into a cheesy Greek stomper and ends up making the band sound more like Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs than anything of value. The single is still in print, fortunately, and it was a top-ten hit. A video has the band on a playground lip-syncing. In recent interviews Nick has claimed this is the band's best video and that it inspired the album CHILD.


I'm a long term prisoner
I had potential
It did me so much good
I got no money
Got no job
Got no future
Got nothing but time

but do you remember
when we were strong?
when the possibilities were endless
we were grand in those days

your clothes tattered and torn
roof just barely over our heads
I'd apologize to you
but it's so trite you'd hit me

got no money
got no job
no future
no future
no future for you

but do you remember
when we were strong?
when the possibilities were endless
we were grand in those days

we were without a doubt
we were full of hope
we were alive