Wasted Time

Album: Ripcord (2016)
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  • The rain is coming down tonight
    I'm smiling looking at this photograph
    I hear that song and I'm flying right back
    To when we had it made
    Every Friday night when the sun went down
    We'd be running them streets like we owned the town

    And I just can't let it go, no, I just can't let it go
    I wonder if you ever think about it like I do
    Seven kids on my two lane road
    Had the guns on the radio
    After all this time it still feels so good

    When I think about those summer nights
    Singing out the window, on the back roads, Sweet Child of Mine
    Sipping on the local's spark of light
    Ain't it funny how the best days of my life
    Was all that wasted time
    All that wasted time

    Out of nowhere, it slipped away
    And the rope by the river hangs silently
    And the town that I knew ain't nothing like it used to be
    Ah, I can't explain
    They took all the color from the picture frame
    And the days got sold to the greed and the game

    But I just can't let it go, no, I just can't let it go
    I wonder if you ever think about it like I do
    Seven kids on my two lane road
    We had the guns on the radio
    After all this time it still feels so good

    When I think about those summer nights
    Singing out the window, on the back roads, Sweet Child of Mine
    Sipping on the local's spark of light
    Ain't it funny how the best days of my life
    Was all that wasted time
    All that wasted time
    Swinging on the line
    Living all that wasted time
    Hey, hey, now

    Summer dresses rained on the hood of the car
    Only music that we had was out the left speaker
    We were living every second 'til the time ran out
    We had nothing but we had it all
    When I think about those summer night
    Sneaking out the window, running back roads
    Your hand in mine
    We were going nowhere, we were so alive
    Uh huh, ain't it crazy how the best days of my life
    Was all that wasted time
    All that wasted time
    We were swinging out on the line
    Living all that wasted time
    Hey, you know oh
    Don't you feel it coming on back now Writer/s: GREG WELLS, JAMES ABRAHART, KEITH URBAN
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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