FLASHBACK BLUES

I spent my youth working on a lot of farms
The proof is on these sunburned arms
Ragged jeans and a dirty pair of shoes
I still think about you every now and then
And for sure here it comes again
I got the flashback blues

It was in the summer heat
It was you I had a chance to meet
I figured what have I got to lose
Well things worked out and all was fine
But you were gone at the end of summer time
I didn't know how to take the news

I guess I wasn't smart enough,
Rich, good looking or tough enough
I must have missed all your clues
The romance was over and that's for certain
You went and pulled down the curtain
And left me with the flashback blues
I got the flashback blues ( yes I do)
I got em bad, Yes I got em bad

Well I'm still working on a lot of farms
And I still got both sunburned arms
Faded jeans and a worn out pair of shoes
And sometimes just for laughs
I look at our old photographs
Dating back to nineteen seventy two
Though I wished for a different ending
I have got to stop pretending
It's still me up on that movie screen
And as the years fly by I'm still wondering why
They haven't washed my memory clean
I can still recall how hot it was
But I was cool just because
I thought I had nothing to lose
But soon came the fall
When I realized I had lost it all
Except for the flashback blues
I still had the flashback blues (yes I did)
You left me with the flashback blues
I still got the flashback blues
I got the flashback blues

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