Flowers By The Side Of The Road Lyrics

Flowers By The Side Of The Road lyrics

Her momma cussed

She was out of film

As her baby came down those stairs

Looking right at him

His hands they shoke

As he pinned on that corsage

And she almost cried

Cause she'd liked this guy

From the very start



Shoulda been just another first

Not the last

A beautiful moment

In two lives

When they looked back



Now there's flowers

By the side of the road

Yeah that's all that's left

Of the hopes and dreams

Of two seventeen year olds

Some dreams live on

And some they don't

All that's left to know

All that's left to show

Are flowers by the side of the road



Coulda been me

Coulda been you

How many times have I said

Just have one or two

It's a soberin' thought

It's a soberin' sight

Like a bad bad dream

You can lose everything

One careless night



Be the one who lives

Be the one whose gone

Be the mother whose heart

Has to somehow go on



Shouldn't be there's flowers

By the side of the road

Yeah that's all that's left

Of the hopes and dreams

Of two seventeen year olds

Some dreams live on

And some they don't

All that's left to know

All that's left to show

Are flowers by 

the side of the road

Flowers by the side

Of the road



Coulda been me

Coulda been you