Objects in the Rear View Mirror

There was a beauty living on the edge of town

She always put the top up and the hammer down

And she taught me everything I'll ever know

About the mystery and the muscle of love

The stars would glimmer and the moon would glow

I'm in the back seat with my Julie like Romeo

And the signs along the highway all said

Caution! Kids at play!

I'll probably never know where she disappeared

But I can see her rising out of the back seat now

Just like an angel rising out of a tomb

... But it was long ago,

and it was far away

Oh God, it seems so very far!

And if life is just a highway,

then the soul is just a car

And objects in the rear view mirror

may appear closer than they are

Oh, objects in the rear view mirror

they appear closer than they are

—Jim Steinman