Boy In the Backseat

Sometimes when I'm driving in my car I check the rear view mirror and there you are With a smile, it seems like only yesterday And while I never want your memory to fade I'm happy were I am with the choices I've made But sometimes I can feel you like you're next to me And the boy in the backseat had eyes of green Like fields of forever Do you know what I mean I don't know if at seventeen You can ever see beyond the dream Or the beat of your heart Flush in your face, it had to be true Like the love with the boy in the backseat I knew After graduation we went our separate ways I flew off to college, you just drove away With plans of traveling this great big world of ours And throughout the years I'd see your eyes On strangers faces, on other guys From small cafes to dark Midwestern bars But the boy in the backseat had miles to go From the isle of Antigua to the Vancouver coast Every now and then a postcard home Friends say you're married, all I know Is the beat of my heart Flush in my face It had to be true Like the love with the boy in the backseat I knew Everyone you ever love is a part of you And the boy in the backseat with eyes of green Like fields of forever do you know what I mean In the rose colored world of seventeen Real life can never touch that dream And the boy in the backseat won't ever change Time passes by, the radio plays On that lost and misty lover's lane The sound of the night, the sound of the rain And the beat of your heart Flush in your face, it had to be true Like the love with the boy in the backseat I knew