Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Just Fall For Me

Met your big brother
When I was just seventeen
He gave me my first beer
My first light of green

Met your baby sister
When I was a junior in school
We'd lay by the poolside
Drinking keg beer like we were cool

And your momma used to go shopping with me
Your daddy and I used to drink coffee
In the morning air, in your screened-in porch

But you're pushing away
From everything we once were
It's been too long
For this to still hurt
And I made mistakes and it's my fault
But I've grown up since it all
So just fall for me

You did it once, just let it go
Just fall for me

I spent the first football game
At a tailgate next to you
Drinking cheap whiskey
Arguing beer pong rules

You still say how pretty
I was in that little black dress
A Georgia princess
Fell for an Army boy with no secrets

And you danced with me on my twenty-first
Washed away all the hurt
From any other boy before you

But you're pushing away
From everything we once were
It's been too long
For this to still hurt
And I made mistakes and it's my fault
But I've grown up since it all
So just fall for me

You did it once, just let it go
Just fall for me

Maybe we knew something was right all along
Back when we were young & singing silly love songs

But you're pushing away
From everything we once were
It's been too long
For this to still hurt
And I made mistakes and it's my fault
But I've grown up since it all
So just fall for me

You did it once, just let it go
Just fall for me
You once said we were meant to be
Just fall for me

How Far

There's something in this late August air
I can feel Fall just on the other side
The dusty air is comin' down behind my old Ford
On the way home from your Daddy's house

My best friend says she knows you real well
But I still get nervous in your eyes
Don't know if I should stare too long
You just may get caught up in mine

And he works on cars all day long
Cuts grass for extra cash at night
He doesn't know how far I can't seem to go
Because I'm scared of tonight
And he holds my hand in the car
And plays country on the radio
I wonder if he can see in my eyes
How far I can't seem to go

A kiss goodnight on my driver's side
Doesn't seem like much in my age
But in late night prayers I can hope
This innocent trials can just stay

And pine trees line your gravel road
Like all the lines you start to say
You say "deny" but I know
You're just scared to fall in a craze

And he works on cars all day long
Cuts grass for extra cash at night
He doesn't know how far I can't seem to go
Because I'm scared of tonight
And he holds my hand in the car
And plays country on the radio
I wonder if he can see in my eyes
How far I can't seem to go

And I'm listening to Taylor Swift songs
Wondering if one could just be ours
I need a Southern fairy tale
A kiss as the rain pours

And he works on cars all day long
Cuts grass for extra cash at night
He doesn't know how far I can't seem to go
Because I'm scared of tonight
And he holds my hand in the car
And plays country on the radio
I wonder if he can see in my eyes
How far I can't seem to go

I just wonder if you'll push me
As far as I need to go