Ellis Paul - Eighteen lyrics

It was a summer night I took off in my old man's car I rolled the windows right on down I cranked up the radio And chased the meteors On a dirt road out of town Tonight There's a bonfire in Walker's field Tonight In the firelight our dreams revealed Tonight You can chase away your high school years Shadows dancing wildly at the scene But I never knew right then Just what it means To be eighteen To be eighteen The voice of Jimmy Aberdeen Still washes over me He had a laugh like a thunder cloud He was holding blue spray paint Jimmy was no saint But he could always draw a crowd That night We climbed the water tower in Walker's field That night Above the lights of town our fates were sealed That night Jimmy fell down through the darkness An ambulance brought silence to the scene And carried off the life And broken dreams Of Jimmy Aberdeen Now the years have pa**ed The cabbie taps the gla** We're outside My reunion hall He leaves me to the night I count the satellites I see the tower Looming tall... Tonight I'm taking on my memory Tonight I climbed the water tower for all to see Tonight I painted steel With cobalt blue Spelling out My graduation year Above the highway That took me out of here And I finally think I really know What it means To be eighteen Eighteen Eighteen