Well I was 20 and she was 18

And we were just about as wild

As we were green in the ways of the world

She'd pick me up in that red ragtop

And we were free of the folks 

And hiding from the cops 

Out on the summer nights

Running all the red lights

And we'd park way out in the clearing in a grove

And the night was as hot as a coal burning stove

And we were cookin with gas

You know it had to last



In the back of that red ragtop

She said please don't stop



Well the very first time her mother met me

Her green-eyed girl had been a mother to be for 2 weeks

I was out of a job and she was in school

Life was fast and the world was cruel

And we were young and wild

We decided not to have a child

So we did what we did 

And we tried to forget

And we swore up and down 

There'd be no regrets in the morning light

And on the way home at night



From the back of that red ragtop

She said please don't stop

Loving me



We took one more trip around the sun

But it was all make believe in the end

And I can't say where she is today

I can't remember who I was back then



Well you do what you do 

And you pay for your sins

And there's no such thing 

As what might have been

That's a waste of time

Drive you out of your mind



I was stopped at a red light just yesterday

Beside a young girl in a Cabriolet

And her eyes were green

And I was in an old scene



I was back in that red ragtop

On the day she stopped 

Loving me



I was back in that red ragtop

On the day she stopped 

Loving me

Loving me