One Perfect Afternoon

Intro

Verse 1

The radio said clear skies through Sunday night

So I rolled my windows down at half past two

Your fence was freshly painted, catching all the light

And you were standing there like something brand new

I pulled over where the county road bends right

You had that kind of laugh that stops a man cold

The wind was blowing twelve miles off the western heights

And I forget whatever plan I was supposed to hold

Pre-Chorus

Eighty degrees and not a cloud from here to town

Something in the air today won't let me slow down

Chorus

One perfect afternoon and I was done for

Sun on your shoulders, wind at your back

I never saw it coming through the open door

Now I don't want any of the old road back

One perfect afternoon and I was gone

Verse 2

We talked about the ranches, yours and then mine

The Calloway fence line that split our grandfathers apart

You said forty years of grudges felt like doing time

And I agreed while studying the freckles on your arm

You poured sweet tea from a mason jar you carried out

We sat on the tailgate till the afternoon went gold

I kept finding reasons to hang around with no real doubt

A man can fall for someone and forget he's been too bold

Pre-Chorus

Eighty degrees and not a cloud from here to town

Something in the air today won't let me slow down

Chorus

One perfect afternoon and I was done for

Sun on your shoulders, wind at your back

I never saw it coming through the open door

Now I don't want any of the old road back

One perfect afternoon and I was gone

Bridge

Maybe fences were always meant to come down

Maybe clear skies are trying to tell us something real

Your grandfather and mine turned their backs on this town

But I'd tear every post out just to know how you feel

Final Chorus

One perfect afternoon and I was done for

Sun on your shoulders, wind at your back

I never saw it coming through the open door

Now I don't want any of the old road back

One perfect afternoon, I'm not moving on

One perfect afternoon and I was gone

Outro

Gone, gone

Out here where the county road bends right

Gone