Feeling Better Lyrics

I want to take you back to the high school gymnasium

With the freshmen and sophomores sitting on this side

And the juniors and seniors sitting on that side

And way down there

At the end of the gymnasium is the football team

And as I walk down on the red crepe paper

My high-heeled shoes are digging into my feet

And my push-up bra is digging into my ribs

And this tall, good-looking guy I'm holding onto over here

He's the basketball captain

He whispers under his breath, "Oh, shoot!"

But I keep smiling as I walk down there

Holding onto the arm of this big, strong man

See, I'm the football princess

And that's what football princesses do is smile

See, I was a freshman then

And you were one of the lettermen

The nights were warm in victory's name

I know the others knew

That heaven was to be with you

And when the deadly was in, of course

The two of us would win "Most likely to succeed"

You were going to study law

And I'd be what my teachers saw

A glowing smile, a college queen

The woman behind the man

Who seemed to need to have the best in life

Including me, a faithful wife

They planned the wedding in advance

Unafraid to take a chance that children would succeed

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I'll be damned, we all pulled through

To think of all the crazy things we wanted to do

You would be a hero and I'd be a queen

Think of all the living we'd have passed up, passed by

Never would have seen it

I'll be damned, we all pulled through

To think of all the crazy things we wanted to do

Well, it may sound silly, but I tell you it's real

The older I get, a whole lot better I feel

Your hair is long and braided now

And I can hardly remember how

It felt to have smooth, shiny legs

Or what you looked like in your pegged pants

I work at a mountain school

My hammer and my mind as tools

You were living on a farm

A brand new baby in your arms

They're tight, we did succeed

The age is showing on my hands

And you've become a wiser man

Survival took us separate ways

But through the years the memory stays

Within my mind of how we looked

When we first had our pictures took

We thought the dream would never end

But now we don't have to pretend

That we will all succeed

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