[Verse 1:]

She gets in her car

October Friday night

Home from work down thirty-one

Past Franklin High

She can see the stadium lights

She can hear the band

A thousand crazy high school kids

Screaming in the stands

Quarterback and homecoming queen

Love too young to know what it means

She goes back in time

Oh, in her mind

It's like a dream

[Chorus:]

He would be sixteen

The son she never knew

It hurt so much to give him up

But what else could she do?

He would be sixteen

[Verse 2]

A child should have a home

She knows her folks were right

She never heard the couple's name

Just that they were nice

She wonders if he's taller than his father was?

Does he drive a car by now?

Has he been in love?

She shakes back to reality

She knows things turn out the way they should be

But she just can't help but ask herself

Does he know about me?

[Chorus:]

He would be sixteen

The son she never knew

It hurt so much to give him up

But what else could she do?

He would be sixteen

She never even got to hold him

And nights like this it hurts to miss

The son she's never seen

He would be sixteen

He would be sixteen