Are the good times really over for good?

Things just aint what they use to be. It use to be that everybody hung out without alcohol or drugs. We use to sit around at the barn or at someones garage and shoot the breeze and do stupid things like set our arms on fire with hairspray. Before everybody could drive and we would walk everywhere. Before everybody got boyfriends and girlfriends and didn't have time to hang out with you. Before everybody grew up and got jobs or were worrying about college applications. What happened to those times? What happened to everybody? Its a very sad and depressing thing to say but those times are gone and I wonder if they will ever be back. Will anything ever be the same? If your one of those people who miss the old days when people had time for you and when they said something they meant it, comment this post. It would be nice to know I'm not the only one who feels this way. So much for growing up...
This feeling reminds me of the Merle Haggard song "Are the good times really over for good." Performed and written by Merle Haggard:

Wish a buck was still silver.

It was back when the country was strong.

Back before Elvis; before the Vietnam war came along.

Before The Beatles and "Yesterday",When a man could still work, and still would.

Is the best of the free life behind us now?

Are the good times really over for good?

Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?

With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.

Wish a Ford and a Chevy,Could still last ten years, like they should.

Is the best of the free life behind us now?

Are the good times really over for good?

I wish coke was still cola, And a joint was a bad place to be.

And it was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV.

Before microwave ovens, When a girl still cooked and still would.

Is the best of the free life behind us now?

Are the good times really over for good?

I think that sums up the shape the country and my life is in.