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The Times Of Your Life
Words & Music by Bill Lane & Roger NicholsRecorded by Paul Anka, 1975
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Good morning yesterday,
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You wake up and time has slipped away.
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And suddenly it's hard to find the memories you left behind.
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Remember? Do you re - mem - ber?
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The laughter and the tears,
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The shadows of misty yester-years,
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The good times and the bad you've seen and all the others in between --
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Remember? Do you re - mem - ber the times of your life?
Bridge:
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Reach back for the joy and the sorrow,
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Put them away in your mind.
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For memories are time that you borrow
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To spend when you get to to - mor - row.
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Here comes the setting sun.
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The seasons are passing one by one.
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So gather moments while you may, collect the dreams you dreamed today.
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Remember, will you re - mem - ber
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The times of your life, of your life, of your life.
This song, which provided the background music for a Kodak commercial, is one of several cases that occurred in the late 60s and early 70s in which music created for a television commercial grew far beyond the original purpose. Two other cases I recall lacked lyrics, but had musically the same effect: "The Disadvantages of you" (developed for then-new 100 millimeter cigarettes by Bensen & Hedges, and also "No Matter What Shape You Stomach Is In," which as I recall came from an Alka-Seltzer commercial. To a lesser extent, I can still whistle the melody to another example -- "The Teaberry Shuffle" which was (I think) from a chewing gum commercial.