Jack and diane painted a picture
Of my life and my dreams
Suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me
Well I heard it today
And I couldn't help but sing along
Cause every time I hear that song
And I go back to a two tone short bed chevy
Drivin' my first love out to the levy
Livin' life with no sense of time
I go back to the feel of a fifty yard line
A blanket a girl some raspberry wine
Wishing time would stop right in its tracks
Every time I hear that song I go back
I go back
I used to rock all night long
To keep on rocking me baby
Frat parties college bars
Just trying to impress the ladies
Well I heard today and I couldn't help but sing along
Cause every time I hear that song
And I go back to the smell of an old gym floor
The taste of salt on a carolina shore
After graduation and drinking goodbye to friends
And I go back to watching summer fade to fall
Growing up too fast and I do recall
Wishing time would stop right in its tracks
Every time I hear that song I go back
I go back
We all have a song that somehow stands
Our lives takes us to another place and time
So I go back to pew preacher and a choir
Singing about god brimstone and fire
And the smell of sunday chicken
After church
And I go back
To the loss of a real good friend
And the sixteen summers
That shared within
Now only the good die young
It stops me in my tracks
Every time I hear that song I go back
I go back
To the feel of a fifty yard line
A blanket a girl
Some raspberry wine
I go back
I go back to watching summer fade into fall
Growing up too fast
And I do recall
I go back I go back
To the loss of a real good friend
And the sixteen summers we shared with them
I go back
I go back
I go back I go back