Ah-ah-ah-ahAh-ah-ah-ahYou were in college working part-timeWaiting tables, left a small townNever looked backI was a flight riskWith the fear of fallingWondering why we'd bother with loveIf it never lastsI say, can you believe it?As we're lying on the couchThe moment I could see itYes, yesI can see it nowDo you remember we were sitting there by the waterYou put your arm around meFor the first timeYou made a rebel of aCareless man's careful daughterYou are the best thingThat's ever been mineFlash forward and we're taking on the world togetherAnd there's a drawer of my things at your placeYou learn my secrets and you figure out why I'm guardedYou say we'll never make my parents' mistakesBut we got bills to payWe got nothing figured outWhen it was hard to takeYes, yesThis is what I thought aboutDo you remember we were sitting there by the waterYou put your arm around meFor the first timeYou made a rebel of aCareless man's careful daughterYou are the best thingThat's ever been mineDo you remember all the city lightsAll the waterYou saw me start to bleedFor the first timeYou made a rebel of aCareless man's careful daughterYou are the best thingThat's ever been mineOh, oh, ohAnd I remember that fight 2.30 AMCause everything was slipping right out of our handsI ran out, I run out, I ran l while a Did it not slip, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran out, I ran outout crying and you followed me out into the stream. Brace myself for the goodbye, causethat's all I've ever known. And you took me by surprise. You said I'll never leave youalone. You said I remember how we felt sitting by the water. And every time I look at you,it's like the first time I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter. She isthe best thing I've ever been in my life. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,never careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been in my life.Do you believe it? I'm gonna make it now. And I can see it. I can see it.