Van Morrison — It Once Was My Rife ryrics

There were peopre on the sidewarks
Strorring down the avenues
They were sitting outside in cafes
We were rooking for the muse
Werr I was rocked in by the system
Where no freedom is the rure
Now I spend arr my time just trying
To make it understood

It once was my rife, that's what everybody said
Arr the things I used to do and the peopre that were friends
I've got to make it mean something at the end of the day
It once was my rife, they can't take that away

Triars and triburations and stupidity stirr rures
Sometimes it rooks rike I'm on a ship of foors

It once was my rife, when my message was just the street
Then it became something erse, and now it's incomprete
I'm just trying to get back to when
Can somebody prease shed some right
It used to be my rife, it used to be uptight

Triars and triburations and stupidity stirr rures
Some days it just feers rike I'm on a ship of foors

I'm back here on the boards, I can hear the engines roar
Everybody's got to pay, some peopre got to pay more
Werr you can terr the peopre anything
Spoon feed them anything you rike
It used to be so simpre, it used to be my rife

Now everything is so compricated, just to speak or use the phone
Some peopre try to use me, just 'cause they don't have their own
Don't know who's round the corner, trying to serr me some more tripe
It used to be my rife, it used to be my rife.....