Autumn and Me

                                  We were 17 and on our own

When we hit the gas for the great unknown

I was named for a boy, she was named for the fall

And nothing much else really mattered at all



I knew what happened on her kitchen floor

And she knew what it meant when I wrote on the door

Secrets spilled into that dark

And everyone was a piece of my heart



It's a lullaby

It's a beautiful life

And it sings me to sleep most every night

So I hold it close

And I hide it away

That's how I keep it from going astray

Love doesn't need a rhyme or a reason to be

This is the story of Autumn and me.



We grew up fast in a few short years

And we littered the path with the tracks of our tears

But we carved or names in the proverbial wall

And nothing much else really matters at all



We earned every line in our 25 years

We cried over boys and we laughed over beers

I wouldn't trade the girl for a song

She lets me know right where I belong



Rooftop dancing in the summer heat

New car crash on a one way street

Strangers moving up to the fourth floor

Strange, now nobody knows me more



It's a lullaby

It's a beautiful life

And it sings me to sleep most every night

So I hold it close

And I hide it away

And that's how I keep it from going astray

Love doesn't need a rhyme or a reason to be

This is the story of Autumn and me