[Verse 1]I was twenty and she was eighteenWe were just about as wild as we were green in the ways of the worldWell, she picked me up in that red ragtopWe were free of the folks and hidin' from the copsOn a summer night, runnin' all the red lightsWe parked way out in a clearing in a groveAnd the night was as hot as a coal burnin' stoveWe were cooking with gasKnew it had to last[Chorus]In the back of that red ragtopShe said, "Please, don't stop"[Verse 2]Well, the very first time her mother met meHer green-eyed girl was a mother to be for two weeks (Ooh)I was out of a job and she was in schoolAnd life was fast and the world was cruelWe were young and wild (Ooh)We decided not to have a childSo we did what we did and we tried to forgetAnd we swore up and down, there would be no regretsIn the morning lightBut on the way home that night[Chorus]On the back of that red ragtopShe said, "Please, don't stopLoving me"[Bridge]We took one more trip around the sunBut it was all make believe in the end (In the end)No, I can't say where she is todayI can't remember who I was back then[Verse 3]Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sinsAnd there's no such thing as what might've beenThat's a waste of time, drive you out of your mindI was stopped at a red light just yesterdayBeside a young girl in a cabrioletAnd her eyes were greenAnd I was in an old scene[Chorus]I was back in that red ragtopOn the day she stoppedLoving meI was back in that red ragtopOn the day she stoppedLoving me
