Where Did the Rock Go

Back when I was younger

Wild and bold and free

I can still remember

How the music used to be

Chords like rolling thunder

Loud beyond control

Every note and lyric

Branded right across my soul

Where did the rock go?

Where's the rush of those electric guitars?

Where are all those voices raised to heaven

Blazing down like shooting stars?

Tell me, where is the passion?

Where's the rattle and the roar and the buzz?

Where do last year's one-hit wonders go to?

And what happened to the girl I was?

Somehow I got older

Year by busy year

Guess the songs kept playing

But I didn't stop to hear

All that youth and swagger

Turned to grown up doubt

As the world spun like a record

And the music faded out

Where did the rock go?

Where's the pounding of the drums in my veins?

When did all the static fill the airwaves?

When it's gone, then what remains?

Tell me, where did the time go?

Where's the joy I used to know way back when?

Where's the power and the beauty, and the frantic, and the rapture?

Where's the magic of the moment only rock could ever capture?

And now the only thing I'm hearing are the echoes disappearing

Sorry for the outburst

Please, I'll be okay

Let's keep this our secret

Who'd believe it anyway?

We'll pretend it never happened

File it and forget

Still, thanks for the reminder

That there's music in me yet

Where did the rock go?

All those feelings that I've learned to ignore?

If you flip the record and start over

Does it sound the way it did before?

Where did the rock go?