The Way I Remember It

Indian Summer, both of us laughin'

Hackberry trees and fireflies flashin'

So many holes in the soles of our shoes

You don't choose life, life chooses you

Floatin' on a raft we built from scrapwood

Mosquito bit scratchin' felt so good

And I'd never seen eyes your color of blue

You don't choose love, love chooses you

From here lookin' back, twenty years gone by

Life slipped by life a gulf shore high tide

And now love's more like a thorn in my side

Than the wonderland it used to be

I guess that's why these memories shine like

Sixteenth birthday cake candlelights

And I know it wasn't that perfect

But that's the way I like to remember it

Big green John Deere forty-eight-forty

Turnin' dirt for most of the morning

Radio givin' severe weather warnings

You don't choose fate, fate chooses you

I got to your house as the black skies opened

We were all alone, thunder was rollin'

As west texas flatland turned into ocean

That was the end of our innocence moment

From here lookin' back, twenty years gone by

Life slipped by life a gulf shore high tide

And now love's more like a thorn in my side

Than the wonderland it used to be

I guess that's why these memories shine like

Sixteenth birthday cake candlelights

And I know it wasn't that perfect

But that's the way I like to remember it

And I've learned most of the sad times, the break downs

The broken parts fade away

I keep all of the highlights close to my heart

And I need them everyday

From here lookin' back, twenty years gone by

Life slipped by life a gulf shore high tide

And now love's more like a thorn in my side

Than the wonderland it used to be

I guess that's why these memories shine like

Sixteenth birthday cake candlelights

And I know it wasn't that perfect

But that's the way I like to remember it

Yeah that's the way I like to remember it