Taylor Preston

I fell in love with Taylor Preston in seventh grade

I met her at a baseball game in '93

Our sisters were in Little League, on the same team

We'd run off to the playground just across the street

I always dreamed of kissing her underneath the twisting slide

Comb my fingers through her ember-reddened hair

Guide my hand between her thighs, her burning flame

Forever entwined in a frozen frame of endless time

Three weeks later, she'd fall out of a tree

She wouldn't walk again until next February

In less than a year, she had forgotten all about me

And moved on to some other guy that I could never be

I fell in love with Taylor Preston in seventh grade

I would have been her anything, had she asked me

Still to this day, I see her there inside my mind

Waiting for me underneath the twisting slide

I dream that I am kissing her, like she was mine

But life and love are funny things when you lose time

I've given you a thousand years worth of regrets

For this girl I met in seventh grade I can't forget

Three weeks later, she'd fall out of a tree

She wouldn't walk again until next February

In less than a year, she had forgotten all about me

And moved on to some other guy that I could never be

Twenty years later, she still lives in my dreams

And I'm 12 years old, underneath that dreaded tree

Hoping that I'll catch her, so we can finally see

If we were ever meant to be more than momentary