I was twenty and she was eighteen,
We were just about as wild as we were green, in the ways of the world
She picked me up in that red rag top
We were free of the folks and hiding from the cops
On a summer night running all the red lights
We parked way out in a clearing in a grove and the night
Was hot as a coal burning stove
We were cooking the gas, we were had to last

In the back of that red rag top
She said "Please don't stop"

Well, the very first time her mother met me
Her green eyed girl have been a mother to be for 2 weeks
I was out of a job and she was in school
And life was fast and the world was cruel
We were young and wild, we decided not to have a child
So we did what we did and we tried to forget
And we swore up and down there would be no regrets
In the morning light
But on the way home that night

On the back of that red rag top
She said "Please don't stop"
Loving me

We took one more trip around the sun
It was all make believe in the end
No, I can't say where she is today
I can't remember who I was, back then

Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins
And there's no such thing as what might've been, that's a waste of time
Drive you outta your mind
I was stopped at a red light just yesterday beside a young girl
In a cabriolet and her eyes were green
I was in an old scene

I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped
Loving me
I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped
Loving me