The Greatest Day of My Life

I had the greatest day of my life, the boys were shooting doubles under Western star-light, I rode a boat across the bay,
Phoenix to Seattle to San Francisco,
hearing Debbie laugh under downtown bar-glow,
Louie telling me he feels free from yesterday,

Drank a cup of coffee couple hours south, of the place I used to run around, when I was too young to really know, the difference in love and longing for it, when to shut up and when to stay with it, and how to forgive and just let go,

‘Cause this is, the greatest day of my life, if I move or close my eyes, it’ll be gone and so will I, so come on in and stay awhile, years are just moments in a great big pile, and she’s there laughing on the porch swing of my mind, and I’m just grateful to be here at closing time,

I had the greatest day of my life, wrote up a single in a New York sky-rise, how the city makes a country boy dream, played pool in Colorado after snow all night, it rained in Carolina but we played just fine, Charles is always better than last week, what did I do to deserve all this? A roof over my head and a band that don’t miss, a healthy dog that hugs me when I’m home, nowadays I don’t feel so alone, it can’t get better, but what have I ever known?

‘Cause this is, the greatest day of my life, if I move or close my eyes, it’ll be gone and so will I, so come on in and stay awhile, years are just moments in a great big pile, and she’s there laughing on the porch swing of my mind, and I’m just grateful to be here at closing time,

I had the greatest day of my life, the boys were shooting doubles under Western star-light, I rode a boat across the bay.