Lemons and Limes

Lemons and limes, in whims and rhymes Reminding you softly of far better times When the air was clear and the sun was hot And you wasted your days lying half-dead on the lot Lemons and limes, reminders of times Where your pockets were emptied but of pennies and dimes And the liquor store was where all your coins dropped Onto the counter of that smelly and nasty old shop Lemons and limes, without sugar too bitter To swallow whole as tears set eyes bright aglitter And pastimes too dull to carry on with for long Before hot summer silence fell apart to fall song Lemons and limes, those were simpler times Now our summers become autumn and we work overtime To make dollars in place of dimes and poor pennies This wasn’t quite how we’d pictured living out our twenties.