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