(to be hummed to the tune of Love Story by T-Swift)

We were both runnin’ when I first saw you

I close my eyes and the flashback starts

We’re standin’ there

On Wash U’s track in St. Louis air

See the team, see the party, the basement

See you make your way through the bears

And say, “Hey I’m looking for a job”

Little did I know

That I’d give you a phone number and you’d call it

And my daddy said, “Move on down to Huntsville”

Then you were packing up your suitcase

Starting out a new life, and I said

Michael, I’ll see ya sometime when I come down

I’ll be up here, all there’s left to do is run (and school)

We’ll be friends and maybe that’s generous

It’s a fun story, dude, just say, “Yes”

So you come up on occasion to visit

We’re just friends, but I feel something more

But it’s not time

Different towns and different lives

‘Cause you’re a grown up now, I was a college student

And my daddy said, “Thanks for sending Michael”

But you were something more to me

I kept askin’ you, “How ‘bout now,” and you said

Katie, okay, I guess we can give this a shot

I’ll be driving, up and down this interstate

You’ll be in school and I’ll be the workin’ man

It’s a love story, finally, ‘cause I said, “Yes”

Katie please, save me, they’re tryna make me quarantine

Pandemic love is difficult, but it’s real

Don’t be afraid, we’ll make it out of this mess

It’s a love story, but right now just at home

Oh, oh

She got kind of antsy

Wondering’ when she could go tell all of her friends

That she is getting married

When she met him on the top of Art Hill, and he said

Katie these days of distance have been really hard

We keep waiting for the day of no “good-byes”

It’s not in your head, I’ll be your forever

He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring

And said, “Marry me, Katie”

*You'll never have to be alone

I love you and that's all I really know

I talked to your dad, gave him Aldi’s pretzels

Its our love story, baby just say, “Yes”

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Cuz we were both runnin’ when I first saw you