That first weekend Sally asked Kats, "Hey, do you like beer?" She had a car and an ID—just what Kats wanted to hear They bought themselves a twelve-pack and carried it through the door To Unit 45 in their suite up on the fourth floor
Kats brought a shitty black-and-white TV for their room They watched the Cleveland Browns each Sunday afternoon The picture wasn't worth a damn, but they watched them anyway They drank their beer, cheered on the Browns and laughed the day away
Labor Day weekend, Kats and Sally partied through the night They both got drunk and somehow ended up in a fight Sally leaned out the window with one last thing to say She hollered to the whole damn world, "Happy Labor Day!"
Whatever they were fighting about was quickly swept away That drunken window battle still gets talked about today It became another story only best friends understand A lifelong college memory that neither one had planned
Kats, Sally, Renee and Karen, friends through every phase They turned those years at GMI into their wild and crazy days Every race and lost wallet became stories they recall Four besties still together, laughing hardest through it all
Kats met Renee the first day, a huge smile across her face Then they tied their legs together for the unit three-legged race They found their rhythm quickly and took off stride for stride They crossed the finish line as winners, Renee by Kats's side
Renee was always happy, with a strength that carried through She invited Kats home for the weekend—and to band camp too Her dad had Peter Frampton playing, turned up good and loud Kats thought that was pretty cool; Renee flashed that smile so proud
Karen was inquisitive and wanted everything explained She needed every detail till no mystery remained One night Kats was out there skiing, Karen tubing with her crew Then Karen lost her friends and wallet, unsure what she should do
She wandered all alone and tried her best to keep her chill Until she ran into her angel Kathleen upon the hill That wouldn't be the final time her wallet went astray She'd conveniently forget it when it came her time to pay
Karen had that famous white coat everywhere she would go "NACHOS! NACHOS! NACHOS!" was all she needed to know It smelled so much like Taco Bell from all those late-night bites It once helped her dodge a drunk-driving ticket late one night
Kats, Sally, Renee and Karen, friends through every phase They turned those years at GMI into their wild and crazy days Every race and lost wallet became stories they recall Four besties still together, laughing hardest through it all
A three-legged race, a twelve-pack and some rock-and-roll A crappy little TV and the Browns—that's how the good years rolled A missing wallet, Taco Bell, some nachos and one white coat A hundred crazy memories that somehow stayed afloat
Kats, Sally, Renee and Karen—besties through it all From Renee's winning smile to Sally's drunken window call From Karen's missing wallet to the nachos on display Four besties still raising hell and laughing all the way
They came to GMI for college, but they found something more A lifelong bond that started there, up on the fourth floor.
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