it s a song on the radio it s your picture on the wall in my bedroom it s any one of a million memories girl everything takes me back but you it s every place that we ve ever been it s runnin into someone we both knew or it s the face of a total stranger girl everything takes me back but you i ve called you up i ve begged and pleaded left love letters at your door though i broke your heart you gotta believe it hurt me even more so what s it gonna take what do you wanna hear girl i think i ve paid my dues and it might be just but it doesn t seem fair that everything takes me back but you it s a sound or it s the silence it s the thought that what i ve done i can t undo or it s the dream i can t put behind me girl everything takes me back but you i ve called you up i ve begged and pleaded left love letters at your door though i broke your heart you gotta believe it hurt me even more so what s it gonna take what do you wanna hear girl i think i ve paid my dues and it might be just but it just ain t fair that everything takes me back but you  it s the night or it s the mornin it s the thunder rollin in before it rains or it s a long long long long stretch of highway girl it s nothin and it s everything it s everything yeah everything takes me back but you girl everything takes me back but you