21 years down | After Sun Drive

Описание: 21 years down | After Sun Drive

Well, I promised her beneath that old gymnasium wall
Said "If we're both still free when autumn leaves fall
In twenty-one years time, meet me here again"
But promises are heavy for seventeen-year-old men

She wore her student council pin
Like armor on her chest
I had my worn-out leather jacket
Thought rebellion was the test

She said "You'll never understand
The weight of what I carry"
I said "Rules are meant for breaking
Why you want to marry
All those expectations?"

Now the autumn wind is whispering
Through the empty parking lot
She's driving in her silver car
To a place that time forgot

Got her wedding ring reflecting
All the streetlights overhead
While I'm six feet in the ground
Should have stayed home instead

Twenty-one years down the line
She kept the promise, I broke mine
Not by choice but by design
Of a fate that ain't so kind

They say she stood there for an hour
In her tailored business suit
Looking for a ghost of love
Beneath that old oak root

But ghosts don't keep appointments
And the dead don't honor deals
When your heart stops beating, boy
That's the only thing that's real

She could have been my morning coffee
Could have been my lucky break
But she chose the golden highway
While I chose the muddy lake

Twenty-one years down the line
She kept the promise, I broke mine
Some things you can't redefine
When you're running out of time

The rain falls on her windshield
Like the tears she cannot cry
For the boy who loved her reckless
Underneath that autumn sky