I was thinking back to the first time we met   Over plangent chords in a sad vignette   You were waving goodbye in a cherry red corvette   And your lips were too      Cherry red that is, with the sky so blue   It was almost mean and your eyes were too   So blue that is, now I am too   And my heart burns cherry red for you      Now my heart burns cherry red for you   Like a fire of beech wood, the saw don?t like it   But you get some cut, one match will strike it   And the embers glow till the wee small hours   When the old seems almost new   That?s when my heart burns cherry red for you      It was cherry red with the custom flames   At the hot rod show when the Kingsmen came   And that bass guitar, it rattled my frame   And it shook you too      The corvette was Big Daddy Roth?s design   Get your picture for a dollar and have it signed   First you got yours then I got mine   And my heart burned cherry red for you      Now my heart burns cherry red for you   Like a fire of beech wood, the saw don?t like it   But you get some cut, one match will strike it   And the embers glow till the wee small hours   When the old seems almost new   That?s when my heart burns cherry red for you      That?s when my heart burns cherry red   My heart burns cherry red   That?s when my heart burns cherry red for you      Now that fake blue sky, it sure looks real   Like you were goin? to California to make a deal   With the God of youth, with the man of steel   Waving toodle-oo      Now if I was young I might track you down   But this old picture is all I found   Now my bones are shakin?, my teeth are ground down   But my heart burns cherry red for you      Yeah, my heart burns cherry red for you   Like a fire of beech wood, the saw don?t like it   But you get some cut, one match will strike it   And the embers glow till the wee small hours   When the old seems almost new   That?s when my heart burns cherry red   That?s when my heart burns cherry red   That?s when my heart burns cherry red for you