Another long summer's come and gone I don't know why it always ends this way The boardwalk's quiet and the carnival rides Are as empty as my broken heart
I've loved you since the very first day When I caught you looking my way Smiled, and I just knew it And up until you came along And no one ever heard
Gonna kick off my shoes and run in bare feet Where the grass and the dirt and the gravel all meet Goin' back to the well gonna visit old friends And feed
The first time I looked in your eyes, I knew That I would do anything for you The first time you touched my face, I felt What I've never felt with anyone
Well, she was precious like a flower She grew wild, wild but innocent A perfect prayer in a desperate hour She was everything beautiful and different
To kiss and tell It's just not my style But the night is young And it's been awhile And she broke my heart Broke it right in two And it's fixing time
Alone in this house again tonight I got the TV on, the sound turned down and a bottle of wine There's pictures of you and I on the walls around me The
I'm gonna be here for you baby I'll be a man of my word Speak the language in a voice That you have never heard I wanna sleep with you forever And I
Well, I know there's a reason And I know there's a rhyme We were meant to be together And that's why We can roll with the punches We can stroll hand
And I can hear the neighbors they're arguin' again And there hasn't been peace on our street since who knows when And I don't mean to listen in but the
When I picked you up for our first date baby Well, your pretty blue eyes, they were driving me crazy And the tiny little thought that was so amazing Is
I woke up early this morning around 4 a.m. With the moon shining bright as headlights on the interstate I pulled the covers over my head and tried to
I'm changing lanes I'm talking on the phone I'm drivin' way to fast And the interstate's jammed with Gunners like me afraid of coming in last But somewhere
There's a new wind blowin' like I've never known I'm breathin' deeper than I've ever done And it sure feels good, to finally feel the way I do Now, I
It ticks just like a Timex It never lets up on you Who said life was easy The job is never through It'll run us 'til we're ragged It'll harden our hearts
I'm livin' in a world that won't stop pullin' on me I'm not complaining but it's true It's like I owe my time to everyone else 'Cause that's all I seem
When I wake up in the mornin' light I pull on my jeans and I feel all right I pull my blue jeans on, I pull my old blue jeans on I pull my blue jeans
I've seen that darkness on the edge of town The sun come up and the rain fall down And I've been a fool, yeah, I've been around And when the world got
