[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