20 Once
By Brad Fleming
Verse 1
We Were Twenty Once, Yea
Weren’t We Something
Shoulder Pads And Stadium
Lights
We Could Run All Day, Raise Hell All
Night
And Somehow Still Show Up For
The Fight
Spring Break Sun And Borrowed
Money
A Crew Of Brothers, Thick As
Thieves
We Were Busy Living Stories
We Didn’t Know We’d Someday
Need
Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
Ten Feet Tall And Bulletproof
Football Lights And Crazy Nights
With Nothing Yet To Lose
We Thought Forever Meant Forever
Hell, What Did We Know?
Now Forever’s Getting Shorter
And Those Memories Are Long Ago
So Here’s To Every One Of Us
And The Boys We Were Back Then
We Were Twenty Once
Tonight We’re Twenty Once Again
Verse 2
Now The Group Text Wakes Up
Early
With Old Pictures, Jokes And
Memories
Stories No One Would Ever Believe
But We All Know What Happened...
Allegedly
Now There’s Wives And Kids And
Miles Between Us
Aching Knees And Reading
Glasses For Old Eyes
But Thirty Years Can Disappear
With One “Remember When” From
’95
Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
Ten Feet Tall And Bulletproof
Football Lights And Crazy Nights
With Nothing Left To Lose
We Thought Forever Meant Forever
Hell, What Did We Know?
Now Forever’s Getting Shorter
And Those Memories Are Long Ago
So Here’s To Every One Of Us
And The Boys We Were Back Then
We Were Twenty Once
Tonight We’re Twenty Once Again
Verse 3
Three Of Us Wound Up In Florida
On A Porch Beneath The Palms
One Had A House, One Made The
Drive
One Showed Up With A Guitar
We Don’t Party Like We Used To
Truth Is, That’s Probably For The
Best
But Get Us Talking ‘Bout The Old Days
And We’re Those Same Damn
Boys Again
Bridge
You Don’t Know You’re Making
Memories
Till They’re Thirty Years Ago
You Don’t Know Which Nights You’ll
Talk About
For The Rest Of Your Life When
You’re Old
And I’d Never Trade The Life I’ve
Got
To Go Back And Start Again
But Those Memories And The
Stories
Are What Forged Us Into Men
Final Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
Ten Feet Tall And Bulletproof
Thought We’d Always Have
Tomorrow
Like Only Young Men Do
Now Each Day Means A Little
More Than It Ever Did Back Then
It’s The Ones At Home Who Love Us
And Old Brothers Still Our Friends
So Here’s To Every One Of Us
And Our Brothers Gone Too Soon
We Were Twenty Once
And Somehow Thirty Disappeared
Outro
Yeah, We Were Twenty Once
Man, Didn’t We Have A Run
We Thought We Had Forever
Turns Out Nobody Does
So Wherever Life May Take Us
Till The Last Old Story Ends
We Were Twenty Once
And We’ll Be Brothers Til The End.
