We Were 20 Once

20 Once
By Brad Fleming

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Verse 1
We Were ATwenty Once, Yea
EWeren’t We Something
Shoulder BPads And Stadium
ELights
We Could ARun All Day, Raise HelEl All

Night
And SomehBow Still Show Up For
The FighEt
Spring Break ASun And Borrowed
EMoney
A Crew Of  BBrothers, Thick As
EThieves
We Were ABusy Living StoriEes
We Didn’t BKnow We’d Someday
ENeed

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
ATen Feet Tall And BulletEproof
Football Lights And Crazy BNights
With Nothing Yet To ELose
We Thought Forever Meant AForever
Hell, What Did We EKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting BShorter
And Those Memories Are ELong Ago
So Here’s To AEvery One Of UsE​
And The BBoys We Were Back TheEn
We Were Twenty AOnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiEn

Verse 2
Now The AGroup Text Wakes Up
EEarly
With Old BPictures, Jokes And
MemoriEes
Stories NAo One Would Ever BelieEve
But We All Know What HBappened...
AllegedEly
Now There’s AWives And Kids And
Miles BetEween Us
Aching Knees And BReading
Glasses For Old EEyes
But Thirty AYears Can DisappEear
With One “RemeBmber When” From
’95 E​

Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
ATen Feet Tall And BulletEproof
Football Lights And Crazy BNights
With Nothing Left To ELose
We Thought Forever Meant ForAever
Hell, What Did We EKnow?
Now Forever’s Getting BShorter
And Those Memories Are ELong Ago
So Here’s To AEvery One Of UEs
And The BBoys We Were Back EThen
We Were Twenty AOnce
Tonight We’re Twenty Once AgaiEn

Verse 3
Three Of AUs Wound Up In EFlorida
On A BPorch Beneath The EPalms
One Had A AHouse, One Made The
EDrive
One Showed BUp With A GuitEar
We Don’t AParty Like We EUsed To
Truth Is, That’s BProbably For The
EBest
But Get Us ATalking ‘Bout The EOld Days
And We’re Those BSame Damn
Boys AgaiEn

Bridge
You Don’t AKnow You’re Making
EMemories
Till They’re BThirty Years AgEo
You Don’t AKnow Which Nights You’ll
Talk AEbout
For The Rest Of Your BLife When
You’re EOld
And I’d Never TArade The Life I’ve
EGot
To Go BBack And Start AEgain
But Those AMemories And The
EStories
Are What BForged Us Into EMen

Final Chorus
We Were Twenty Once
ATen Feet Tall And BulletprEoof

Thought We’d Always Have
ToBmorrow
Like Only Young Men EDo
Now Each Day Means A ALittle
More Than It Ever EDid Back Then
It’s The BOnes At Home Who Love Us
And Old EBrothers Still Our Friends
So Here’s To AEvery One Of EUs
And Our BBrothers Gone Too ESoon
We Were Twenty AOnce
And Somehow EThirty Disappeared

Outro
Yeah, We Were Twenty Once A  E​
Man, Didn’t We Have A BRuEn
We Thought We Had ForAeveEr
Turns Out Nobody BDoes E​
So Wherever ALife May Take UEs
Till The BLast Old Story EndEs
We Were Twenty AOnce  E​
And We’ll Be BBrothers Til The EndE.

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