The Way I Remember It-Trent Willmon

Indian Summer, both of us laughin' Hackberry trees and fireflies flashin' So many holes in the soles of our shoes You don't choose life, life chooses you Floatin' on a raft we built from scrapwood Mosquito bit scratchin' felt so good And I'd never seen eyes your color of blue You don't choose love, love chooses you From here lookin' back, twenty years gone by Life slipped by life a gulf shore high tide And now love's more like a thorn in my side Than the wonderland it used to be I guess that's why these memories shine like Sixteenth birthday cake candlelights And I know it wasn't that perfect But that's the way I like to remember it Big green John Deere forty-eight-forty Turnin' dirt for most of the morning Radio givin' severe weather warnings You don't choose fate, fate chooses you I got to your house as the black skies opened We were all alone, thunder was rollin' As west texas flatland turned into ocean That was the end of our innocence moment From here lookin' back, twenty years gone by Life slipped by life a gulf shore high tide And now love's more like a thorn in my side Than the wonderland it used to be I guess that's why these memories shine like Sixteenth birthday cake candlelights And I know it wasn't that perfect But that's the way I like to remember it And I've learned most of the sad times, the break downs The broken parts fade away I keep all of the highlights close to my heart And I need them everyday From here lookin' back, twenty years gone by Life slipped by life a gulf shore high tide And now love's more like a thorn in my side Than the wonderland it used to be I guess that's why these memories shine like Sixteenth birthday cake candlelights And I know it wasn't that perfect But that's the way I like to remember it Yeah that's the way I like to remember it