Lyrics

That maple out front stood there forty summers.
Nobody ever pulled over.
Now look. The whole street slows down.
Ooh... mmm...
Green as a paycheck, plain as a Monday,
it held the shade for the whole block through.
Nobody slowed down, nobody noticed,
it just kept doing what it had to do.
Then October found that maple
and the whole street stopped to see.
It was orange all along...
just like me.
October in the mirror,
in the mirror,
the best colors come with time.
I was never meant to peak in June,
and honey, this one's finally mine.
That's me... that's me...
Ooh... that's me.
Nobody takes a picture of the working years,
the early alarms, the bills to pay.
Some of us two by two, some of us on our own,
we were growing this color every day.
Then October found that maple
and the whole street stopped to see.
It was orange all along...
just like me.
October in the mirror,
in the mirror,
the best colors come with time.
I was never meant to peak in June,
and honey, this one's finally mine.
That's me... that's me...
Ooh... that's me.
There were years I thought I was the background.
Somebody's mother. Somebody's Tuesday.
Somebody's ride. Somebody's rock.
Took me sixty years to see October in the mirror.
Took me sixty-five.
October in the mirror,
in the mirror,
the best colors come with time.
I was never meant to peak in June,
and honey, this one's finally mine.
October in the mirror.
Look at us. We turned out beautiful.
Forty summers, nobody slowed down.
This morning there were three cars on the shoulder.
One of them was mine.