[verse]

I thought I wouldn't miss you—

Till you walked out, now I'm staring at my shoes.

I see my reflection,

A face of rejection

That knows too well what it means to get bad news.

There ain't no penny on the ground,

Ain't no good luck to be found.

My cell phone's ringing,

And the noise is driving me wild.

There ain't no rainbow with a pot of gold,

Ain't no love story that hasn't been told.

My dinner's burning,

I feel like I've been spanked like a child.

You knocked me down, spun me around,

Dropped my pants in the middle of town.

Almost naked, catching a cold,

Now it may sound funny

But I just turned twenty,

And I feel like a hundred years old.

Love has a way of kicking your ass

When you're in fourth gear,

Running out of gas,

Wish someone had warned me,

But I never would have listened anyway.

Still, I tasted cherry cola,

And a sweet girl named Nola,

And for a moment,

It made me feel all fuzzy inside.

Like maybe there's a reason,

A little rhyme in the madness,

A flicker of light in the mess.

I’ve got to get back to the way things were,

Back to the love that I'm looking for,

Back to the nights that felt endless,

Back to the laugh lines and the fight scars

That prove I was alive.

But maybe I’ll stumble,

Fall flat on my face again,

And maybe I’ll burn another dinner,

But the taste of that cherry cola,

The memory of Nola’s smile,

It reminds me

That even chaos has its sweetness.

So I lace up my shoes,

Take a deep breath,

Shake off the cold and the pain,

And step back into the world

Hoping, just hoping,

To find that love worth the ride