In the Southern sky
Southward as you go
And all of a sudden it's the summer before my senior year. You are smart, funny, sarcastic and twenty-four.
"Sing along!" you say between verses and I wonder how to pretend I've heard this song before.
You smile, you laugh, you joke about things that are beyond me while I try to keep up.
There is moonlight
And moss in the trees
Down the Seven Bridges Road
I pretend I've played this game before while we are naked in the lake/car/park/kitchen, playing games I've heard of and exploring things I haven't. You don't want these things to be firsts for me, so I say they aren't.
Now I have loved you like a baby
Like some lonesome child
And I have loved you in a tame way
And I have loved you wild
You teach me about good music, good food, good books and great sex without knowing you have an avid pupil.
We had one year before a new girl took your eye.
Sometimes there's a part of me
Has to turn from here and go
Running like a child from these warm stars
Down the Seven Bridges Road
Fifteen years are between me and that summer but a few bars of a song reminds me where my love of good music, good food, good books and great sex came from.
There are stars in the Southern sky
And if ever you decide
You should go
In retrospect, You were a whirlwind.
I was too young.
In hindsight, You were having a fling.
I was in love.
I wouldn't change a minute of it.
There is a taste of time sweetened honey
Down the Seven Bridges Road
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