After school, walking home   Fresh dirt under my fingernails   And I can smell hot asphalt   Cars screech to a halt to let me pass      And I cannot remember   What life was like through photographs   And trying to recreate images   Life gives us from our past   And sometimes it's a sad song      But I cannot forget, refuse to regret   So glad I met you and   Take my breath away, make everyday   Worth all of the pain that I have gone through      And mama I've been cryin'   'Cause things ain't how they used to be   She said, "The battles almost won   And we're only several miles from the sun" whoa yeah      And I'm moving on down the street   I see people I won't ever meet   I think of her, take a breath   Feel the beat in the rhythm of my steps   And sometimes it's a sad song, ho      But I cannot forget, refuse to regret   So glad I met you and   Take my breath away, make everyday   Worth all of the pain that I have gone through      And mama I've been cryin'   'Cause things ain't how they used to be   She said, "The battles almost won   And we're only several miles from the sun"      The rhythm of her conversation   The perfection of her creation   The sex she slipped into my coffee   The way she felt when she first saw me      Hate to love and love to hate her   Like a broken record player   Back and forth and here and gone   And on and on and on and on      But I cannot forget, refuse to regret   So glad I met you and   Take my breath away, make everyday   Worth all of the pain that I have gone through      And mama I've been cryin'   'Cause things ain't how they used to be   She said, "The battles almost won   And we're only several miles"   She said, "The battles almost won   And we're only several miles from the sun" yeah