If I could invent a time machine, then maybe
We'd both be seventeen

Cruising in my first car, neckin like movie stars on a
Friday night
Do you remember those Friday nights?

We were a rock, ready to roll, there was a fire down in our souls
And all the whole world had to stand still, then turn around us
'Cause that was the deal
And oh how those nights went flowing like wine,

She left a yellow rose and a long neck bottle
On a table beside my bed
With a short little note that said I had a good time
It was written in lipstick red
She didn't sign her name I wonder
If that a little secret that she keeps
Ooo... she's walkin' around in my sleep

Dream walkin', pillow talkin'
She's callin' my name again
Day's breakin' I ain't wakin' up, I'm sleepin' in

Seven weeks have passed now since she left me,
She shows her face to ask me how I am
She says the kids are fine and that they miss me
Maybe I could come and baby-sit sometime

She says, "are you o.k? I was worried about you.
"Can you forgive me? I hope that you'll be happy."
I'm so happy that I can't stop crying
I'm so happy I'm laughing through my tears

I thought it would be dandy
If I bought that girl some candy
How was I suppose to know she was allergic to chocolate
I thought it would be fine
If we shared a glass of wine
She said, "Oh no, not another alcoholic"

I don't understand my girlfriend
I haven't got a clue
I don't know where she's coming from
Or where she's going to
But if opposites attract
Then I found the perfect woman Jack

You couldn't tell by lookin' we'd ever met before
I hardly ever see her, she don't come by any more
With all the time we spent together, I thought by now she would've called
It's amlost like she never even know my name at all

But the first night I met her, we were just strangers
Small talk conversation, we became friends
One morning we woke up and we'd turned into lovers

She's a top barrel racer
Cowboy chaser
She drinks tecate like it's goin' out of style
She's real good lookin' And pretty good at hookin'
Any man she wants with just a little smile

I drawed a strong one
A big full grown one
He punched me out when I hit the ground
I came to with a panoramic view
Lookin' for my baby
She was nowhere around

I looked up, I looked down

Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say
So I lay here and just listen to you breathe
Girl you know it's only been a week since our first date
Back when you were just a stranger to me
I've never let another in so soon
I've never been caught talking to the man in the moon

And yet this is farther than I've ever fell
You know me much too well
Funny it don't feel like we just met

I don't want to cry
I don't want to walk the floor
This mobile home
Don't feel like home no more
Since you left tell me what else can I do
Just come back home
Forgive me and forget it
This bed I made
I'm tired of sleepin' in it
It's freezin' cold, and baby that ain't cool
I'm waitin' on you
Here at the ponderosa trailer park
There wasn't nothin' that could keep us apart

My name is Jackson, I was named after my father
Followed in his footsteps, down here to this factory
I ain't complainin', wouldn't waste my breath to bother
This work ain't hard, it's only borin' as can be

Married Rebecca back in seventy-seven
I still love her and I guess she loves me too
We go to church on Sundays 'cause we want to go to heaven

Jacky Don Tucker was my daddy's little brother
And at seventeen he jumped the fence
He joined a rock 'n' roll band, got a tattoo on his hand
Granny said he never had a lick of sense
'Cause by the time he turned seven he was a stealin' watermelons
Playin' house with the girl next door
Drinkin' muscadine wine by the time he was nine
Sneakin' out and smokin' cigarettes under the porch

We stood at the altar, repeating our vows for life
For better or worse, forever a husband and wife
Love's not always easy and dreams don't all come true
Why'd you lose your faith in me, I never gave up on you

When I said "I Do," I did, and the words were truly spoken
I gave you my heart to hold thinkin' it would go unbroken
You drifted so far you can't see the stars that we wished upon before