Met a girl when I was young She was sixteen minus one Fell in love with the sprinklers on Graduate and move away Stay in best most everyday A love like that can make you stay But I know, we're not sixteen anymore And I know, it ain't like it was before 'Cuz april jean Is killin' me She haunts my dreams at night I'm not alright, it's another damn fight She sleeps right by my side And I know she'll always be My april jean Lost the girl I'm 21 Photograph exposed to sun Picture in my wallets done Late at night she paints me blue When I'm drunk I think of you I can't trade her in for someone new But I know, we're not sixteen anymore And I know, it ain't like it was before 'Cuz april jean Is killin' me She haunts my dreams at night I'm not alright, it's another damn fight She sleeps right by my side And I know she'll always be My april jean I go back to the days on the bedroom floor Where we talked about love and the boys before I go back to the nights in the parking lot Where we took it all of and we never got caught I know her favorite songs I know she's never wrong I know we'll fall in love again We'll fall in love again.