| BACK IN ATHENS saw a girl that i used to know last night at the mall i called out her name but she didn't seem to recognize me at all guess i got a bit thinner, my hair was now greyer than brown and here we were a thousand miles from our old hometown. we chatted a while, then goodbye, a peck on the cheek she left me with my melting ice cream and that old memory it took me back to athens when i was single and twenty-one drinkin' cold margueritas with you in the hot georgia sun guess that i'll never forget the way things once had been for you and me back in athens. i traded our green grass for cactus and rocks on the lawn threw out my old red bulldog sweatshirt, the one you always had on the two golden rings are stuck way in the back of a drawer along with the pictures i can't bear to see anymore i started a new life, i thought i'd relearn how to smile and sometimes i'm better, but way more than once in a while i find i'm back in athens when i was married and thirty-two sittin' out on the porch on a clear georgia night with you guess that i'll never forget the way things once had been for you and me back in athens i've had a few not so special romances but i know no one else will ever do i'm still in love with you. my heart goes back to athens when i was cryin' and forty-three when the lord called your name and took you forever from me i know i'll never forget the way things once had been you and me back in athens ©Bill Osofsky, BMI, floyd jane ASCAP |