Well, I'd wreck that better day Chevrolet
A thousand times, a thousand ways
Just to feel the kind of way it made me feel
Behind that wheel
And I'd break my heart come every fall

To taste that summer and the alcohol

On lips that said, "I love you", but never will

I'd kiss her still



With a heart wide open, I'll go down goin'

I'd rather drown dreaming than to stay dry hoping

I'd rather steal time than have mine stolen

I'd rather live



A life I can learn with, swerve with, twist and turn with

Take a ninety mile an hour curve with

The longer I, longer I live

The more that I, more that I wish



For some friends I can sip with, take a fifth with

Find a girl I can kiss through the thin and the thick with

With the one life I get

I want a life I can live

Not just a life I can live with

Not just a life I can live with



I'd rather be a leaving town silhouette

With taillights burning like cigarettes

Wastin' good gas on a bad bet

Than to die knowin' I never lived



A life I can learn with, swerve with, twist and turn with

Take a ninety mile an hour curve with

The longer I, longer I live

The more that I, more that I wish



For some friends I can sip with, take a fifth with

Find a girl I can kiss through the thin and the thick with

With the one life I get

I want a life I can live

Not just a life I can live with

Not just a life I can live with



With a heart wide open, I'll go down goin'

I'd rather drown dreaming than to stay dry hoping

I'd rather steal time than have mine stolen

I'd rather live



A life I can learn with, swerve with, twist and turn with

Take a ninety mile an hour curve with

The longer I, longer I live

The more that I more that I wish



For some friends I can sip with, take a fifth with

Find a girl I can kiss through the thin and the thick with

With the one life I get

I want a life I can live

Not just a life I can live with

Ooh, not just a life I can live with



Not just a life I can live with