Seventeen Septembers - Ellis Paul

Do you remember

17 Septembers ago

Sweat on the backseat

Dylan on the radio

You peeled off your troubles

When you peeled off your old blue jeans

But in the dash light

She’s like an angel fallen to earth

And you convince yourself that she’s worth

Every risk you took the night the cornfields shook

Bye, bye baby, in the click of hands

Hello yet-to-be mystery man

One night in a car changed who you are

A boy a the front wheel

17 Septembers have passed

«Pop the clutch with your left heel…»

You’re linking up his future, your past

And you tell him, «Your mom and me were bound for trouble-

Wedding bells at the age of 18…»

But in the dash light

He looks like an angel fallen to earth

And now you know how it cold have been worse

For every risk you took the night the cornfield shook

Bye, bye baby, in the click of the hand

Look he’s a yet-to-be mystery man

Who played kick-the-can

With a glass filled with sand