[00:02.95]If I hadn't dropped the ball,
[00:06.07]
[00:06.70]I would've took it all the way
[00:10.69]Homecoming '89
[00:14.21]with ten seconds left to play
[00:17.26]
[00:18.20]We were drivin' toward the goal line,
[00:22.01]they were screamin' in the stands
[00:25.64]I had the chance to be a hero,
[00:29.39]but it slipped right through my hands
[00:33.33]There would've been a big pep rally,
[00:37.39]the would've hung my jersey on the wall
[00:43.39]
[00:46.40]If I hadn't dropped the ball
[00:51.22]
[00:52.97]Me and Cindy Miller
[00:56.16]were supposed to meet after the game
[01:00.21]I waited by the bleachers,
[01:03.84]but she never came
[01:07.47]I found a note on my windshield
[01:11.59]underneath the wiper blade
[01:15.10]With goodbye bleedin' through it
[01:18.78]in the cold October rain
[01:22.72]We probably would've gotten married
[01:26.71]And those recruiters in from 'Bama would've called
[01:32.85]
[01:35.78]If I hadn't dropped the ball
[01:40.72]
[01:41.85]My life would've been so different if in that instant
[01:47.35]Things had gone the way i planned
[01:52.79]
[01:53.48]But the fact is that they didn't,
[01:57.00]and the hand i wound up getting
[02:01.05]Is something that i'll never understand
[02:07.88]
[02:10.94]I ran away that summer,
[02:14.38]took a job out on the coast
[02:18.07]And that's where I met your mama,
[02:21.69]and the rest I guess you know
[02:25.82]If I had the chance to go back
[02:29.63]and score that last touchdown
[02:33.58]Well, son, I wouldn't do it,
[02:37.13]'cause you wouldn't be here now
[02:41.01]And I wouldn't be your hero,
[02:44.65]I wouldn't be around to catch you when you fall
[02:50.89]
[02:53.66]If I hadn't dropped the ball
[02:58.54]
[02:59.98]My life would've been so different if in that instant
[03:05.31]Things had gone the way i planned
[03:10.63]
[03:11.51]But the fact is that they didn't
[03:15.07]and the hand i wound up getting
[03:18.93]Is the one that god intended me to have
[03:26.79]No, I wouldn't be the man I am at all
[03:32.01]If I hadn't dropped the ball