If I hadn't dropped the ball, I would have took it all the way,
Homecoming' '89 with ten seconds left to play.
We were drivin' toward the goal line, they were screamin' in the stands,
I had the chance to be a hero, but it slipped right through my hands.
There would have been a big pep rally,
They would have hung my jersey on the wall
If I hadn't dropped the ball.
Well me and Cyndi Miller were supposed to meet after the game,
I waited by the bleachers, but she never came.
I found a note on my windshield underneath the wiper blade,
With 'Goodbye' bleeding through it in the cold October rain.
We probably would have gotten married,
And those recruiters in from Bama would have called
If I hadn't dropped the ball.
My life would have been so different if in that answer,
Things had gone the way I planned.
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
Is something that I'll never understand.
I ran away that Summer, took a job out on the coast.
And that's where I met your momma, and the rest I guess you know.
If I had the chance to go back and score that last touchdown,
Well son, I wouldn't do it, 'cause you wouldn't be here now.
And I wouldn't be your hero,
I wouldn't be around to catch you when you fall
If I hadn't dropped the ball.
My life would have been so different if in that answer,
Things had gone the way I planned.
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
Is the one that God intended me to have.
No I wouldn't the man I am at all,
If I hadn't dropped the ball.