We Were So Young

Last time I saw her was a long, long time ago
Somewhere in the swirling mists of time
Clinging so close at the airport, then watched as the plane
Rose and faded into western skies
Endless blue, endless blue

She was a force of nature, but so soft and gentle
Appeared from half a continent away
Every now and then a song will carry me back there
To her memory, a memory of that face
Heaven above, high school love

We were so young, in the summer of ‘59
How we did shine, how we did shine
We were so young in the summer of ‘59
High, wide and handsome, summer of ‘59

Who knows what might have happened, to the two of us
In a different time, a different place
But she’ll always stay that uncorked bottle
That unread novel, someone who slipped away
Out there somewhere, who knows where