you can t have a better today if you don t remember yesterday let me tell you the story we had no time we had to leave we didn t wanna go we cut our ties lamenting how the story always goes we can t return that was a time so very long ago but it won t be lost those we re the best times that we would ever know now they ve all gone away everybody s gone away now they ve all gone away everybody s gone away everybody s gone away thats why we called it yesterday behind these eyes the movie always running through my mind of fatal lives yet many more than that came through alright so you fall in line some day we all must give up the fight its not your demise i know you won t give up deep down inside now they ve all gone away everybody s gone away now they ve all gone away everybody s gone away everybody s gone away thats why we called it yesterday so you can t tie me down to the past i will reach for the sky i will learn how to laugh at the things that we never knew the troubles we had and i ll die with my innocence and freedom intact now they ve all gone away everybody s gone away now they ve all gone away everybody s gone away now they ve all gone away everybody s gone away that s why we called it yesterday that s why we called it yesterday