Ain't Life a Brook
Buy/ListenI watch you reading a book
I get to thinking how our love's a polished stone
You give me a long drawn look
I know pretty soon you're going to leave our home
And of course I mind
Especially when I'm thinking from my heart
That life don't clickety clack down a straight line track
It come together and it come apart
You say you hope I'm not the kind
To make you feel obliged to go
Ticking through your time with a pain look in your eyes
You give me the furniture
We'll divide the photographs
Go out to dinner one more time
Have ourselves a bottle of wine
And a couple of laughs.
When first you left
I stayed so sad I wouldn't sleep
I know that love's a gift
I thought yours was mine
And something that I could keep
Now I realize
Time was not the only compromise
A bird in the hand could be an all-night stand
Between a blazing fire and a pocket of skies
And so I hope I'm not the kind
To make you feel obliged
To go ticking through your time
With a pain look in your eyes
I covered the furniture
I framed the photographs
Went out to dinner one more time
Had myself a bottle of wine
And a couple of laughs.
Just the other day
I got your letter in the mail
I'm happy for you
It's been so long you've wanted a cabin and a backwoods trail
And I think that's great
Me, I find myself in school
It's all okay, I just want to say
I'm so relieved we didn't do it cruel
And ain't life a brook
Just when I get to feeling like a polished stone
I give myself a long, drawn look
It's kind of a drag to find yourself alone
And sometimes I mind
Especially when I'm waiting on your heart
But life don't clickety clack down a straight line track
It come together and it come apart
'Cause I know you're not the kind
To make me feel obliged to go
Ticking through time with a pain look in my eyes
I sold the furniture
Put away the photographs
Went out to dinner one more time
Had myself a bottle of wine
And a couple of laughs
But wasn't it fine.
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