We were 17 and on our own   When we hit the gas for the great unknown   I was named for a boy, she was named for the fall   And nothing much else really mattered at all      I knew what happened on her kitchen floor   And she knew what it meant when I wrote on the door   Secrets spilled into that dark   And everyone was a piece of my heart      It's a lullaby   It's a beautiful life   And it sings me to sleep most every night   So I hold it close   And I hide it away   That's how I keep it from going astray   Love doesn't need a rhyme or a reason to be   This is the story of Autumn and me.      We grew up fast in a few short years   And we littered the path with the tracks of our tears   But we carved or names in the proverbial wall   And nothing much else really matters at all      We earned every line in our 25 years   We cried over boys and we laughed over beers   I wouldn't trade the girl for a song   She lets me know right where I belong      Rooftop dancing in the summer heat   New car crash on a one way street   Strangers moving up to the fourth floor   Strange, now nobody knows me more      It's a lullaby   It's a beautiful life   And it sings me to sleep most every night   So I hold it close   And I hide it away   And that's how I keep it from going astray   Love doesn't need a rhyme or a reason to be   This is the story of Autumn and me