That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be
My father sits at night with no lights onHis cigarette glows in the darkThe living room is stillI walk by, no remarkI tiptoe past the master bedroom whereMy mother reads her magazinesI hear her call sweet dreamsBut I forgot how to dream
But you say it's time we moved in togetherAnd raised a family of our own, you and meWell, that's the way I've always heard it should beYou want to marry me, we'll marry
My friends from college they're all married nowThey have their houses and their lawnsThey have their silent noonsTearful nights, angry dawnsTheir children hate them for the things they're notThey hate themselves for what they areAnd yet they drink, they laughClose the wound, hide the scar
But you say it's time we moved in togetherAnd raised a family of our own, you and meWell, that's the way I've always heard it should beYou want to marry me, we'll marry
You say we can keep our love aliveBabe, all I know is what I seeThe couples cling and clawAnd drown in love's debrisYou say we'll soar like two birds through the cloudsBut soon you'll cage me on your shelfI'll never learn to be just me firstBy myself
Well O.K., it's time we moved in togetherAnd raised a family of our own, you and meWell, that's the way I've always heard it should be,You want to marry me, we'll marryWe'll marry