In A Time Before

There used to be a time Before the internet stole my ideas It stole my imagination And let me see my fears There used to be a time When people simply were allowed to forget Allowed to move on in ignorance To not live overwhelmed with regret There was a time before When photos of lovers gone could burn in flame A computer couldn't recall a face It couldn't even recall a name There was a time before When you would never see the new Couldn't see what there was to compare Didn't know who stood in the place of you I'm pretty sure that there was a time That was better than living as we are Now we dive to the past in a second And see the future from afar I'm in fact certain there was a time When ex's were whispers lingering on memories New loves and friends were simply unknown But now knowledge of others has become the tease So if this mystical time before existed once I'd prefer to live in that time So I could move forward instead of time-travelling That's my idea of sublime.