Well I won't back down No, I won't back down You could stand me up at the gates of hell And I won't back down I'm gonna stand my ground Won't be turned
Eddie waited Til' he finished high school He went to Hollywood Got a tattoo He met a girl out there With a tattoo too The future was wide open They moved
Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up and the world got still I
Hey! Hey! Don't come around here no more Don't come around here no more Whatever you're looking for (Hey!) Don't come around here no more I've given
Well the talk on the street Says you might go solo A good friend of mine saw You leavin' by the back door I need to know (I need to know) I need to know
She grew up in a Indiana town Had a good lookin' mama, who never was around But she grew up tall, and she grew up right With them Indiana boys on a Indiana
Well it was nearly summer, we sat on your roof Yea, we smoked cigarettes and we stared at the moon And I'd showed you stars you never could see Baby,
It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down I had the radio on, I was drivin' The trees went by, me and Del were singin' Little runaway, I was flyin' Yeah
Call out the instigator Because there's something in the air We got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution's here And you know it's right
Oh baby, don't it feel like heaven right now? Don't it feel like somethin' from a dream? Yeah, I've never known nothin' quite like this Don't it feel
We got somethin' we both know it We don't talk too much about it Ain't no real big secret all the same Somehow we get around it Listen, it don't really
Well she was an American girl Raised on promises She couldn't help thinking that there Was a little more to life somewhere else After all it was a great
She's a good girl, loves her mama Loves Jesus and America too She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis Loves horses and her boyfriend too It's a long day
One, two You better watch what you say You better watch what you do to me Don't get carried away Girl, if you can do better than me Go, yea go, but remember
You think you're gonna take her away With your money and your cocaine You keep thinkin' that her mind is gonna change But I know everything is okay She
There goes my baby There goes my only one I think she loves me But she don't wanna let on Yes she likes to keep my guessing She's got me on defense With
Well, it was out in California by the San Diego sea That was when I was taken in and it left its mark on me Yeah, she nearly drove me crazy with all those
Baby I heard thunder I woke up 'middle of the night Baby I saw fire I went left, I went right So you tell me what you want me to do This might be over