[slow guitar solo] Verse 1 You lived two blocks from our house Same school, same dusty roads Kids on bikes and gravel drives That’s just how it goes I must have seen you a thousand times Running past our gate Funny how the heart wakes up A little bit too late Verse 2 I was sixteen that summer You were maybe fifteen then We tried our first cheap cigarette Behind the school with friends I can’t remember what we said Or half the things we did But I remember how you laughed And something in me woke Chorus You must be over sixty now Life must have taken you somewhere But in my mind you're still eighteen Standing in the summer air Time can run its crooked road Do whatever it’s been told But memory keeps one picture safe The one that never grows old Verse 3 Then one fall you weren’t around Your house stood quiet in the sun Someone said your folks moved out Just like that — you were gone No goodbyes, no grand farewell Just life the way it goes Some doors close without a sound And maybe that’s OK Bridge I’ve had my share of brief loves And roads that led me far But some things stay exactly where The brightest moments are Final Chorus And every year that passes by Still brings that picture back to me The girl who lived two blocks away Forever eighteen in my memory