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Uploaded by on Dec 21, 2009

I made this using my high school yearbooks. And an accordion. FREE ALBUM DOWNLOAD AT:
http://www.mattkresling.com/main/Matt_Kresling_Album.zip

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Everything we knew was wrong.
Walk out the door and slam the screen.
We were only seventeen
so long, so long, so long ago.

Living in the shadow of the S.A.T.s,
drinking apple vinegar we thought was wine.
The war back then was fine with me,
so long, so long, so long ago.
so long, so long, so long ago.
So long, so long ago.

So maybe you remember Rohner Park,
black but for the light above the bridge.
Sitting on the swings, half in the dark,
laughing at things so wrong, so great,
so long ago.
So long, so long ago.

Every joke we told was cribbed,
stolen from a late night show
and said as if it were ad-libbed
so long, so long, so long ago.

And maybe you remember how
the adults then sung a bittersweet song
with the same words that Im singing now:
so long, so long, so long ago.
So long, so long ago.

So maybe you remember Rohner Park
before it was a park and just a field,
where, prior to the diamonds, grasses wild
were growing.

Was it so wrong, or great,
so long ago?
So long, so long ago.

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  • I've easily listened to this song 50 times in the last week. It's so good it's not even funny.

    Criminally under-viewed.

  • @LennyBound Thanks a lot, LennyBound. I take your point, but I don't know... if 73,000 people listened to me play this in my living room, I'd be pretty excited.

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  • This is geat. Congratulations Matt.

  • Matt Kressling, you are a genius. I'm proud to know you. Someday....

  • why this video doesnt get 1 Million views??? i love it

  • greaat :)

  • Every time I watch this I am stunned by how good it is. Amazing stuff, man.

  • Super Video und Musik, was mir gefällt! :-)

  • your got some good talent, awsome.

  • I am not sure, but I think I never seen such a well made video before in my life. Also I really, really, really, really, really, [...], really like that song.

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