We Were 20 Once

20 Once
By Brad Fleming

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Verse 1
We Were DTwenty Once, Yea
AWeren’t We Something
Shoulder EPads And Stadium
ALights
We Could DRun All Day, Raise HelAl All

Night
And SomehEow Still Show Up For
The FighAt
Spring Break DSun And Borrowed
AMoney
A Crew Of  EBrothers, Thick As
AThieves
We Were DBusy Living StoriAes
We Didn’t EKnow We’d Someday
ANeed

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
DTen Feet Tall And BulletAproof
Football Lights And Crazy ENights
With Nothing Yet To ALose
We Thought Forever Meant DForever
Hell, What Did We AKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting EShorter
And Those Memories Are ALong Ago
So Here’s To DEvery One Of UsA​
And The EBoys We Were Back TheAn
We Were Twenty DOnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiAn

Verse 2
Now The DGroup Text Wakes Up
AEarly
With Old EPictures, Jokes And
MemoriAes
Stories NDo One Would Ever BelieAve
But We All Know What HEappened...
AllegedAly
Now There’s DWives And Kids And
Miles BetAween Us
Aching Knees And EReading
Glasses For Old AEyes
But Thirty DYears Can DisappAear
With One “RemeEmber When” From
’95 A​

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
DTen Feet Tall And BulletAproof
Football Lights And Crazy ENights
With Nothing Left To ALose
We Thought Forever Meant ForDever
Hell, What Did We AKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting EShorter
And Those Memories Are ALong Ago
So Here’s To DEvery One Of UAs
And The EBoys We Were Back AThen
We Were Twenty DOnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiAn

Verse 3
Three Of DUs Wound Up In AFlorida
On A EPorch Beneath The APalms
One Had A DHouse, One Made The
ADrive
One Showed EUp With A GuitAar
We Don’t DParty Like We AUsed To
Truth Is, That’s EProbably For The
ABest
But Get Us DTalking ‘Bout The AOld Days
And We’re Those ESame Damn
Boys AgaiAn

Bridge
You Don’t DKnow You’re Making
AMemories
Till They’re EThirty Years AgAo
You Don’t DKnow Which Nights You’ll
Talk AAbout
For The Rest Of Your ELife When
You’re AOld
And I’d Never TDrade The Life I’ve
AGot
To Go EBack And Start AAgain
But Those DMemories And The
AStories
Are What EForged Us Into AMen

Final Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
DTen Feet Tall And BulletprAoof

Thought We’d Always Have
ToEmorrow
Like Only Young Men ADo
Now Each Day Means A DLittle
More Than It Ever ADid Back Then
It’s The EOnes At Home Who Love Us
And Old ABrothers Still Our Friends
So Here’s To DEvery One Of AUs
And Our EBrothers Gone Too ASoon
We Were Twenty DOnce
And Somehow AThirty Disappeared

Outro
Yeah, We Were Twenty Once D  A​
Man, Didn’t We Have A ERuAn
We Thought We Had ForDeveAr
Turns Out Nobody EDoes A​
So Wherever DLife May Take UAs
Till The ELast Old Story EndAs
We Were Twenty DOnce  A​
And We’ll Be EBrothers Til The EndA.

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