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I was twenty and she was eighteen

We were just about as wild as we were green in the ways of the world

 She'd pick me up in that red ragtop

  we were free of the folks and hiding from the cops

 on a summer night, runnin all the red lights

 so we'd park way out in a clearing in a grove

 and the night was as hot as a coal burnin stove

 we were cookin with gas,

 oh it had to last

  in the back of that red rag top

  she said please dont stop

 well the very first time her mother met me

 her green eyed girl had been a mother to be for two weeks

 i was out of a job and she was in school

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

 on the back of that red rag top

 she said please dont stop loving me

 we took one more trip around the sun

 and it was all make believe in the end

 no i cant say where she is today

 i cant remember who i was back then

 well you do what you do

 and you pay for your sins and theres no such thing as what might have been

 thats a waste of time,

 drive you out of your mind

 i was stopped at a red light just yesterday beside a young girl in a cabriolet

 and her eyes were green

 and i was in an old scene

 i was back in that red rag top

 on the day she stopped lovin me

 i was back in that red rag top

 on the day she stopped lovin me