When I was young, I fell in love We used to hold hands, man, that was enough (yeah)
Then we grew up, started to touch Used to kiss underneath the light on the back of the bus
I know your daddy didn't like me much And he didn't believe me when I said you were the one
Oh, every day, she found a way out of the window to sneak out late
* She used to meet me on the Eastside In the city where the sun don't set
And every day, you know that we ride Through the backstreets in a blue Corvette
Baby, you know I just wanna leave tonight We can go anywhere we want
Drive down to the coast, jump in the sea Just take my hand and come with me, yeah
** We can do anything if we put our minds to it Take your whole life,
then you put a line through it My love is yours if you're willing to take it
Give me your heart 'cause I ain't gonna break it So come away, starting today
Start a new life together in a different place
We know that love is how all these ideas came to be So baby, run away with me
Seventeen and we got a dream to have a family A house, and everything in between
And then, oh, suddenly, we turned twenty-three
And now we got pressure for taking our life more seriously
We got our dead-end jobs and got bills to pay Half our old friends are now our enemies
And now I, I'm thinking back to when I was young Back to the day when I was falling in love
( * , ** )
Run away, now Run away, now Run away, now
Run away, now Run away, now Run away, now
He used to meet me on the Eastside
She used to meet me on the Eastside
He used to meet me on the Eastside
She used to meet me on the Eastside In the city where the sun don't set
