Can you remember
The days when they were simpler
Can you remember
Being the greatest pretender
Playing in the backyard
With a cardboard box as a cop car
Oh, to think of what I'd give
Just to go back and pretend
Cause in that world
I could do whatever I wanted
Be a firefighter or pilot
Be what I wanted to be
And in that world
I could be a superhero
Or an athlete that won a gold medal
No one said that I couldn't be
The only one with power was me
Do you remember
Being the greatest inventor
Or do you remember
The time we searched for buried treasure
Pretending in the backyard (backyard)
On an island never explored (explored)
It's all different, we're not kids
How did it ever come to this
And in that world
I could do whatever I wanted
Be a firefighter or pilot
Be what I wanted to be
And in that world
I could be a superhero
Or an athlete that won a gold medal
No one said that I couldn't be
The only one with power was me
Yeah
The only one with power was me
Cause in that world
You could have been the greatest captain
And traveled all of the islands
And challenged all the roughest seas
And in that world
You could have been a spy on a mission
To find out where the enemy's hiding
So many things that you could be
When we were kids in that world that was free