Yearbook

'Most likely to get married',
Class of 1980
It's there in black and white, up on a shelf
Damn, they look so happy
Wish Mom had kept that jacket
And Dad had kept the firebird he had to sell
And I guess they stayed together
Just because they wrote 'forever'
On the inside of the cover by their names
They were in love, you can read it
I guess I've just only seen it
In a red ink heart around my father's face
They've lived in the same house
For almost forty years now
But the last day they were on the same page
Was in a yearbook
They never saw it coming
From the bleachers at homecoming
That she'd work late, and he'd hide cigarettes
They're still high school sweethearts
Just without the good parts
That fifteen-yard line grass was green as there's would ever get
And I guess they stayed together
Just because they wrote 'forever'
On the inside of the cover by their names
They were in love, you can read it
I guess I've just only seen it
In a red ink heart around my father's face
They've lived in the same house
For almost forty years now
But the last day they were on the same page
Was in a yearbook
Ooh, too bad the pages only turn one way
Ooh, and it's too damn hard to look at yesterday
And I guess they stayed together
Just because they wrote 'forever'
On the inside of the cover by their names
They were in love, you can read it
I guess I've just only seen it
In a red ink heart around my father's face
They've lived in the same house
For almost forty years now
But the last day they were on the same page
Was in a yearbook
Ooh, was in a yearbook