Red Rag Top (Tim McGraw) it was all make believe in the end. And
no I can't say where she is today. I can't
( ) x2 re- member who I was back then.
(starts on 'D')
Well, you do what you do and you pay for your
I was twenty and she was eighteen, we were sins, and there's no such thing as what might
just about as wild as we were green in the have been, that's a waste of time, drive
ways of world. She'd pick me you out of your mind. I was stopped at a
up in that red rag top, we were free of the red light just yesterday, be- side a young girl
folks and hiding from the cops on a summer in a cabriolet, and her eyes were green. I
night, running all the red lights. We'd was in an old scene. I was back in that
park way out in a clearing in a grove, and red rag top on the day she stopped
the night was as hot as a coal-burning stove, loving me. I was back in that red rag
we were cooking with gas, knew it had to top on the day she stopped loving
last. In the back of that red rag me.
top, she said please don't stop...
Well, the very first time her mother met me
her green eyed girl had been a mother-to-be
for 2 weeks. I was out
of a job and she was in school, and 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, from the back of that red rag
top, she said please don't stop
loving me.
We took one more trip a- round the sun, but
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