Jake Walden - Simple Life lyrics

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You say, we're getting older

you say, remember when?

when we were younger

and a mother hungered

for a simple life....

i remember years ago when you came into my room

i'd scream and then i'd laugh at you, like a teenage boy will do

not a brother then or friend to say,

"you're too beautiful to count the ways"

you were lovely with your broken smile

i was blinded by your light

seventeen and almost grown

i found a place to call my own

you came into my door that night so alive alive alive

we drank the wine that night to take the dare

it hit you hard

i held your hair

you were lovely with your broken smile

i began to see the light

yeah, when you're feeling a little low

yeah, when you're cryin' out for more

yeah, i'll be running

never far from where you are

twenty four he broke your heart

they flew me home to see your dark

through a canyon deep in desert land we would drive and drive and drive

you said "let's melt into the ground today

stare at the clouds and laugh away"

you were lovely with your broken smile

i was proud to see your light

i'm thinking 50 years from now

when all is said and done

with babies grown and lovers gone

to time and time and time

we'll recall the days when mom would say

"you're too beautiful to count the ways"

you'll be lovely with your broken smile

when you rise into the light

yeah, when you're feeling a little low

yeah, when you're cryin' out for more

yeah, i'll be running

never far from where you are

they'll say, "we're gettin' older"

they'll say, "remember when?....

when they were younger and a mother hungered

for a simple life...a simple life...."

(Thanks to Jake for these lyrics)