Wonderful Life

Every Sunday morning I wake up

I see you by your dresser doing your make-up

Fluttering a Chinese fan in a Knoxville fashion

All last night you tossed and turned

Your body was hotter than the night that Richmond burned

You say you had a bad nightmare about tractor trailers crashing

Throw your arms around me

Let's keep this quiet

Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire

See our breath in the window, in the turning light

Oh it's a wonderful Life

You say you were only seventeen

When you fell in love with that dirty Reverend Green

I remember you at the baptism as he held his daughter down

We could hear Thelma and Louise

Making love under the Poplar trees

We could hear some screaming, sounded like a slaughterhouse

Throw your arms around me

Let's keep this quiet

Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire

See our breath in the window, in the siren light

Oh It's a wonderful Life

Me and Joey started a fire in the road

Just to watch it glow

His father didn't like it though, he gave Joey a black eye

Me and you we did the same damn thing

We fell in love knowing the pain it would bring

Now all I do is sing sad songs with red eyes

Throw your arms around me

Let's keep this quiet

Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire

See our breath in the window, in the turning light

Oh it's a wonderful Life