The One I Swear

Intro

Yeah

Uh-huh

Class of ninety-four

Listen

Verse 1

Second period math I was staring at the board

Then she walked in late with a hall pass and a pour

Of rain off her jacket dripping onto tile

I forgot the quadratic formula for a while

Said something dumb about the weather she just laughed

Two braces and a binder full of paragraphs

Chorus

She was the one I swear

She was the one I swear

Perfect in the imperfect way

Nobody else compares

Nobody else compares

She was the one I swear

Verse 2

Walked her home past the payphone on the corner

Talked till dark about her dreams and her honor

Roll

Told me she wanted out of this small town

I told her I would follow her around

She kissed me by the laundromat sign

Nineteen ninety-five felt like it was mine

Chorus

She was the one I swear

She was the one I swear

Perfect in the imperfect way

Nobody else compares

Nobody else compares

She was the one I swear

Bridge

Maybe I was young

Maybe I was wrong

Maybe love is just a song you sing too long

But I still hear her name in every trumpet horn

Every horn

Verse 3

Years went by I moved out to the coast

Heard she married someone and I raised a toast

To the girl with the graphite on her sleeve

The one who taught me how to believe

Cheap perfume and a beat-up Chevrolet

I would trade it all to have one more day

Chorus

She was the one I swear

She was the one I swear

Perfect in the imperfect way

Nobody else compares

Nobody else compares

She was the one I swear

Outro

Yeah

That girl

That girl

Mm-hmm