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LINER NOTES:

I originally wrote this song for a film called IMAGINE-1973 by producer and director Thomas Erb.

Tom and I were both involved in the Thespian troupe in high school in Middletown (RI). That was it for me when it came to acting, but Tom went on to some success in the movie business. He has many film credits and has worked on several Steven Spielberg movies. After I published my first musical releases in 2014, Tom heard it and called me up to ask if I was interested in writing music for his film. A version of this song came out of that effort. The lyrics were about the experiences we shared as seniors at Middletown High.

For whatever reasons, the film never came out, so in 2018 I decided to take my music and the concept of going back in time but getting to do things differently.

My wife Kathy and I had just gotten engaged and I IMAGINEd what might have happened if we had met back in 1973 instead of 2016.

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LYRICS:

When we see our reflection… it can take us by surprise.
I think because we see ourself through an 18 year-old’s eyes.
Back then we had no patience now we try to take things slow
Perhaps because our journey hasn’t that much more to go
.. or maybe ‘cause each minute seems much shorter now…
I wish that I could travel back in time some-how

CHORUS
We’d all like to go back to 1973
Our whole life stood before us Our hearts and minds were free.
If we could only get back there to 1973
I’d move in down the street from you
and Baby, maybe you’d go out with me



We weren’t just Rich or Poor back then. there was a thriving middle class
’til the OPEC Arab nations made us wait in line for gas
In spite of that Recession, 4-Grand is all we paid
to BUY a brand new LTD and tour the USA
To take that ride today would cost you MORE than 40 grand
but the car you’re in would prob’bly be imported from Japan

CHORUS
We’d all like to go back to 1973
Our whole life stood before us Our hearts and minds were free.
If we could only get back there to 1973
I’d take you to the senior prom
and that’s when you’dµ fall in love with me


High School was finally over I had an answer for everything
but I went on to college just to cut the apron strings
Yet, every day brought something new that I never knew before
from the joy and pain of young love to losing friends in a stupid war
When you include all our other loved ones who have died
it makes us feel much closer to the rest who stayed and cried

CHORUS
We’d all like to go back to 1973
Our whole life stood before us ur hearts and minds were free.
If we could only get back there to 1973
We would have gotten married then
and raised a family
We could have had a child and named her Millie, late in 74
and she could join her sister Lolly, who was born the year before

CHORUS
I wish that we could go back to 1973
Our whole life stood before us Our hearts and minds were free.
If we could only get back there to 1973
Our lives would have been wonderful
If you had been with me …
since 1973

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from 2Sides: 1973 *​*​PLUS​*​* Ain't Wastin' Time, released June 10, 2022

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Bobby Faria Boston, Massachusetts

Award Winning Guitarist, Saxophonist, Singer and Songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts

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