i was twenty and she was eighteen
we were just as wild as we were green in the ways of the world
she picked me up in that red rag top
we were free of the folks and hiding from the cops
on a summer night running all the red lights
we parked way out in a clearing in a grove and the night
was hot as a coal burning’ stove
we were cooking the gas we were had to last
in the back of that red rag top
she said please don’t stop
well the very first time her mother met me
her greeneyed girl was a mother to be for weeks
i was out of a job and she was in school
life was fast and the world was cruel
we were young and wild
we decided not to have a child
so we did what we did and we tried to forget
and we swore up and down
there would be no regrets
in the morning light
but on the way home that night
on the back of that red rag top
she said please don’t stop
loving me
we took one more trip around the sun
it was all make believe in the end
no i can’t say where she is today
i can’t remember who i was back then
well you do what you do and you pay for your sins
and there’s no such thing as what might’ve been
that’s a waste of time drive you outta your mind
i was stopped at a red light just yesterday
beside a young girl in a cabriolet
and her eyes were green
i was in an old scene
i was back in that red rag top
on the day she stopped
loving me
i was back in that red rag top
on the day she stopped
loving me
Artist: Tim Mcgraw
Year: 2002
Decade: 00s
Language: en
Word Count: 127