We Were 20 Once

20 Once
By Brad Fleming

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Verse 1
We Were ETwenty Once, Yea
BWeren’t We Something
Shoulder F#Pads And Stadium
BLights
We Could ERun All Day, Raise HelBl All

Night
And SomehF#ow Still Show Up For
The FighBt
Spring Break ESun And Borrowed
BMoney
A Crew Of  F#Brothers, Thick As
BThieves
We Were EBusy Living StoriBes
We Didn’t F#Know We’d Someday
BNeed

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
ETen Feet Tall And BulletBproof
Football Lights And Crazy F#Nights
With Nothing Yet To BLose
We Thought Forever Meant EForever
Hell, What Did We BKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting F#Shorter
And Those Memories Are BLong Ago
So Here’s To EEvery One Of UsB​
And The F#Boys We Were Back ThenB​
We Were Twenty EOnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiBn

Verse 2
Now The EGroup Text Wakes Up
BEarly
With Old F#Pictures, Jokes And
MemoriBes
Stories NEo One Would Ever BelieBve
But We All Know What HF#appened...
AllegedBly
Now There’s EWives And Kids And
Miles BetBween Us
Aching Knees And F#Reading
Glasses For Old BEyes
But Thirty EYears Can DisappBear
With One “RemeF#mber When” From
’95 B​

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
ETen Feet Tall And BulletBproof
Football Lights And Crazy F#Nights
With Nothing Left To BLose
We Thought Forever Meant ForEever
Hell, What Did We BKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting F#Shorter
And Those Memories Are BLong Ago
So Here’s To EEvery One Of UBs
And The F#Boys We Were Back TBhen
We Were Twenty EOnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiBn

Verse 3
Three Of EUs Wound Up In BFlorida
On A F#Porch Beneath The PBalms
One Had A EHouse, One Made The
BDrive
One Showed F#Up With A GuitaBr
We Don’t EParty Like We BUsed To
Truth Is, That’s F#Probably For The
BBest
But Get Us ETalking ‘Bout The BOld Days
And We’re Those F#Same Damn
Boys AgaiBn

Bridge
You Don’t EKnow You’re Making
BMemories
Till They’re F#Thirty Years AgoB​
You Don’t EKnow Which Nights You’ll
Talk ABbout
For The Rest Of Your F#Life When
You’re BOld
And I’d Never TErade The Life I’ve
BGot
To Go F#Back And Start AgBain
But Those EMemories And The
BStories
Are What F#Forged Us Into MBen

Final Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
ETen Feet Tall And BulletprBoof

Thought We’d Always Have
ToF#morrow
Like Only Young Men BDo
Now Each Day Means A ELittle
More Than It Ever BDid Back Then
It’s The F#Ones At Home Who Love Us
And Old BBrothers Still Our Friends
So Here’s To EEvery One Of BUs
And Our F#Brothers Gone Too SBoon
We Were Twenty EOnce
And Somehow BThirty Disappeared

Outro
Yeah, We Were Twenty Once E  B​
Man, Didn’t We Have A F#RunB​
We Thought We Had ForEeveBr
Turns Out Nobody F#Does  B​
So Wherever ELife May Take UBs
Till The F#Last Old Story EndsB​
We Were Twenty EOnce  B​
And We’ll Be F#Brothers Til The End.B​

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