We were only seventeen Summer nights and faded jeans, down in Adelaide Sandy hair and windy days Hazel eyes and cabernet, down in Adelaide Falling rain like tambourines Sleepless nights through windy seas, down in Adelaide A kiss goodbye and suddenly I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. She's a world away Oh, it's nine thousand nine hundred fifty seven miles away And if she just picked up the phone I'd be on a plane And I'd fly like the wind if I could fall into her arms again But it's tough, 'cause I'm in love and she's in Adelaide I haven't seen her for a year 'Cause I'm in this northern hemisphere, and she's in Adelaide She had to stay, I had to go Now she's in summer, I'm in snow, a world away And oh, it's nine thousand nine hundred fifty seven miles away Where I fell in love with a girl, now I'm a world away She never picked up the phone, now I'm alone And it's tough, 'cause I'm in love and she's in Adelaide And oh, it's nine thousand nine hundred fifty seven miles away And if she just picked up the phone I'd be on a plane And I'd fly like the wind if I could fall into her arms again But it's tough, 'cause I'm in love and she's in Adelaide We were only seventeen Summer nights and faded jeans, down in Adelaide