When I was young, we fell in love, we used to hold hands, man, that was enough Then we grew up, started to touch, there was a kiss underneath the line in the back of the bus Oh no, your daddy didn't like me much, and he didn't believe me when I said you were the one No, every day, she'd find a way out the window to sneak howling He used to meet me on the east side, in the city where the sun don't set And every day, you know that we ride through the back streets of a blue Corvette And baby, you know I just wanna leave tonight We can go anywhere we want, drive down to the coast, jump in the sea Just take my hand and come with me Singing, we can do anything if we put our minds to it Take your whole life, then you put a line through it My love is yours if you're willing to take it Give me your heart, cause I ain't gonna break it So come away, start it today Start a new life together in a different place We know that love is how all these ideas came to be So baby, run away with me Seventeen, we had a dream to have a family, a house and everything in between And then, oh, suddenly, we turned twenty-three And we got precious for taking our life more seriously We got our dead-end jobs and got bills to pay Have our friends and our enemies And now, I'm thinking back to when I was young, back to the days when I was falling in love He used to meet me on the east side, in the city where the sun don't set And every day, you know that we ride through the back streets in a blue Corvette And baby, you know I just wanna leave tonight We can go anywhere we want, drive down to the coast, jump in the sea Just take my hand and come with me Singing, we can do anything if we put our minds to it Take your whole life, then you put a line through it My love is yours if you're willing to take it Give me your heart, cause I ain't gonna break it So come away, starting today Starting a life together in a different place We know that love is how all these ideas came to be So baby, run away with me Run away now, run away now, run away now, run away now We can do anything if we put our minds to it Take your whole life, then you put a line through it My love is yours if you're willing to take it Give me your heart, cause I ain't gonna break it So come away, starting today Starting a life together in a different place We know that love is how all these ideas came to be So baby, run away with me