Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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"The Way It Was" from Brooke Annibale's album "Silence Worth Breaking"

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lyrics:
this place doesn’t feel the same anymore
i can’t trace how or why it seems to change
but it seems it’s changed

like an old friend, that i used to know so well
but i’ve been gone so long
that there’s so much we can’t tell

you, the skyline and the street signs
oh, fading away the further i drive
oh, i can’t help but realize
i can never go back to the way it was

i walk the streets that used to hold my life
and everything i see is just a picture in my mind
of all that’s behind me, that haunts, that reminds me
of the beauty and the pain of what’s gone

it’s a long road now and there’s no turning back
you ought to know that, know that