i slip out the backdoor and into the night
i can still feel the sun on my barefeet tonight
i am waiting to meet you and waiting to see
if you feel the same way about me
back in the 70's we children of freedom
believing we'de make a difference when our time would come
and in the darkness when the fourth grade movie played
our fingers touched together promising one day that...
tomorrow i will be yours
tomorrow i will be yours
out on a boat with the bell from the shore and the sun so low
(x2)
i think i fell in love with you
when we always tied for first
in clothes with holes and shoes to old and covered in dirt
always making me laugh now you, your making me cry
your parents, made some money and sent you away to a private
prep school high, but...
tomorrow i will be yours
tomorrow i will be yours
out on a boat with the bell from the shore and the sun so low
(x2)
i slip out the back door and in the night
to the elm tree we promise we meet here tonight
i have opened our skin with my grandmothers pin
and we vowed to the stars to never forget
midnight orion is clear in the sky i can feel you come closer
to kiss me goodnight oh please kiss me and hold me
and have me again your the one that i wanted
tomorrow i will be yours
tomorrow i will be yours
out on a boat with the bell from the shore and the sun so low
(x4)
i slip ou the backdoor and into the night
all the years now between us dividing our lives
i hear that you married in new orleans
and i wonder if you wonder still about me
slip out the backdoor and into the night
to the elm tree i go and i laugh at orion
cause there in the bark lies our hearts in the tree
side by side
freshly carved
not by me