Seventeen - Mat Kearney

I was only seventeen

Livin' out a reckless dream

Ridin' those summer streets

To the corner of high and thirteen

Me and other VD boys

Runnin' too wild too bored

Lookin' for the grown man’s toys

Out at that corner store

Well they threw the money to me and somebody’s ID

I was in the parking lot scared as hell

Sent the sixteen dollars down a wishing well

Two bottles of wine those red and blue lights

Took a trip down town for the very first time

Watching my whole life flash before my eyes

Like I was seventeen

She was from across the tracks

With a private school laugh

We were both falling too fast

Down a river that wouldn’t last

It was only one night and our first time

I was in the parking lot scared as hell

Sending sixteen dollars down the wishing well

I held her tight between those yellow lines

We sat there crying 'bout a miscarried life

Watching my whole life flash before my eyes

Like I was seventeen

Oh it was a lifetime ago

And I prayed for mercy

Walking on down that road

I led the woman of my dreams

And she said yes to me

And she’s sayin', «Baby I’m late, I’m never this late

I’m feeling a change, we should find out either way.»

And I’m grabbing my keys and I’m shutting the front door

I can hardly breathe driving that familiar road

And I’m parked between those yellow lines

Lookin' down that aisle

Don’t know whether to laugh or whether to cry

I was in the parking lot scared as hell

Sending sixteen dollars down the wishing well

Two pink lines, or maybe just one

Could by my daughter or it could be my son

Watching our whole lives flash before my eyes

Like I was seventeen

Funny how the years switch around the tears that way

Like I was seventeen