Bittersweet Chocolate Days

Do you remember those days long ago--
The sun always high and the shadows so low;
When whirling and twirling were all one could do;
When everything said was believed to be true?

Oh, do you remember those faraway days?
Bitter, yet sweet, to us now in our age.
Laughter and flowers, mingled with pain.
Bittersweet chocolate, let’s live it again.

How could we know what we’d grow up to be?
Did we imagine the hurt that we’d see?
Aching with grief, we wish we could be
Back in the ethereal world of the free.

But with the wisdom we’ve gained in our years,
Searching horizons with eyes full of tears,
A voice, deep within, says “It’s all part of life”,
Move onward, oh onward, towards the Great Light.

Oh, do you remember those faraway days?
Bitter, yet sweet, to us now in our age.
Laughter and flowers, mingled with pain.
Bittersweet chocolate, let’s live it again.

And so we’ll look back when we feel torn apart,
Back on those days that so soften our hearts.
Nostalgia thick as we reach through the haze.
Bittersweet, bittersweet chocolate days.