We Were 20 Once

20 Once
By Brad Fleming

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Verse 1
We Were CTwenty Once, Yea
GWeren’t We Something
Shoulder DPads And Stadium
GLights
We Could CRun All Day, Raise HelGl All

Night
And SomehDow Still Show Up For
The FighGt
Spring Break CSun And Borrowed
GMoney
A Crew Of  DBrothers, Thick As
GThieves
We Were CBusy Living StoriGes
We Didn’t DKnow We’d Someday
GNeed

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
CTen Feet Tall And BulletGproof
Football Lights And Crazy DNights
With Nothing Yet To GLose
We Thought Forever Meant CForever
Hell, What Did We GKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting DShorter
And Those Memories Are GLong Ago
So Here’s To CEvery One Of UsG​
And The DBoys We Were Back TheGn
We Were Twenty COnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiGn

Verse 2
Now The CGroup Text Wakes Up
GEarly
With Old DPictures, Jokes And
MemoriGes
Stories NCo One Would Ever BelieGve
But We All Know What HDappened...
AllegedGly
Now There’s CWives And Kids And
Miles BetGween Us
Aching Knees And DReading
Glasses For Old GEyes
But Thirty CYears Can DisappGear
With One “RemeDmber When” From
’95 G​

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
CTen Feet Tall And BulletGproof
Football Lights And Crazy DNights
With Nothing Left To GLose
We Thought Forever Meant ForCever
Hell, What Did We GKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting DShorter
And Those Memories Are GLong Ago
So Here’s To CEvery One Of UGs
And The DBoys We Were Back GThen
We Were Twenty COnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiGn

Verse 3
Three Of CUs Wound Up In GFlorida
On A DPorch Beneath The GPalms
One Had A CHouse, One Made The
GDrive
One Showed DUp With A GuitGar
We Don’t CParty Like We GUsed To
Truth Is, That’s DProbably For The
GBest
But Get Us CTalking ‘Bout The GOld Days
And We’re Those DSame Damn
Boys AgaiGn

Bridge
You Don’t CKnow You’re Making
GMemories
Till They’re DThirty Years AgGo
You Don’t CKnow Which Nights You’ll
Talk AGbout
For The Rest Of Your DLife When
You’re GOld
And I’d Never TCrade The Life I’ve
GGot
To Go DBack And Start AGgain
But Those CMemories And The
GStories
Are What DForged Us Into GMen

Final Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
CTen Feet Tall And BulletprGoof

Thought We’d Always Have
ToDmorrow
Like Only Young Men GDo
Now Each Day Means A CLittle
More Than It Ever GDid Back Then
It’s The DOnes At Home Who Love Us
And Old GBrothers Still Our Friends
So Here’s To CEvery One Of GUs
And Our DBrothers Gone Too GSoon
We Were Twenty COnce
And Somehow GThirty Disappeared

Outro
Yeah, We Were Twenty Once C  G​
Man, Didn’t We Have A DRuGn
We Thought We Had ForCeveGr
Turns Out Nobody DDoes G​
So Wherever CLife May Take UGs
Till The DLast Old Story EndGs
We Were Twenty COnce  G​
And We’ll Be DBrothers Til The EndG.

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