Small Town First Love

  

© 2008 Shawn Gilley
Music and Lyrics by Shawn Gilley ​

Verse1:
They are both seventeen
sitting on the front porch swing
in small town West Virginia
She lives two houses down from him
they've been friends since they were kids
watching each other grow up
Friday night they drive down main street
she sits in his passenger seat
in his old blue rusted chevy
like all them kids do
CHORUS:
It was white fences and old brick houses
watching the town clock as the hours
fade into days going by
To the place out by the river
the dogwood branch where he first kissed her
and told her time would never be enough
She was his small town first love
Verse2:
They're out at Mr. Johnson's diner
where on the wall there's still a sign
for coffee from 1943
Sitting at that red vinyl booth
Where he first told her "I love you"
and her teardrops
landed on the fraying seams
They'd sit there just holding hands
spending hours making plans
of leaving that town in the past someday
CHORUS
Bridge:
It's funny how time rolls away
like a speeding car down the interstate
and there ain't a way to slow it down.
Old memories fall behind
like billboard signs on I65
But one memory stays clear through time
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