Some people live for the fortune Some people live just for the fame Some people live for the power, yeah Some people live just to play the game
Some people think That the physical things Define what’s within And I’ve been there before That life’s a bore So full of the superficial
Some people want it all But I don’t want nothing at all If it ain’t you, baby If I ain’t got you, baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain’t got you, yeah
Some people search for a fountain Promises forever young Some people need three dozen roses And that’s the only way to prove you love them
Hand me the world on a silver platter And what good would it be With no one to share, with no one who truly cares for me
Some people want it all But I don’t want nothing at all If it ain’t you, baby If I ain’t got you, baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain’t got you, you, you
Some people want it all But I don’t want nothing at all If it ain’t you, baby If I ain’t got you, baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain’t got you, yeah
If I ain’t got you with me, baby, oh, ooh Said nothing in this whole wide world don’t mean a thing If I ain’t got you with me, baby
I skimmed across black water, without once submerging Onto the banks of an urban morning That hungers the first light, much much more Than mountains ever do. And she like a ghost beside me goes down with the ease of a dolphin And emerges unlearned, unscathed, unharmed. For she is the perfect creature, natural in every feature And I am the geek with the alchemists stone. For all of you who must discover, for all who seek to understand
For having left the path of others, you find a very special hand
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time And it is the only way Forget-me-nots among the snow, it’s always been and so it goes To ponder his death and his life eternally For all of you who must discover, for all who seek to understand
For having left the path of others, you find a very special hand
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time And it is the only way Forget-me-nots among the snow, it’s always been and so it goes To ponder his death and his life eternally One bright blue rose outlives all those Two thousand years and still it goes To ponder his death and his life eternally
Katie’s sittin’ on her old front porch Watchin’ the chickens peck the ground There ain’t a whole lot goin’ on tonight In this one horse town Over yonder comin’ up the road In a beat up Chevy truck Her boyfriend Tommy is laying on the horn Splashing through the mud and the muck
Her daddy say’s, “he ain’t worth a lick” When it comes to brains he got the short end of the stick” But Katie’s young and man she just don’t care She’d follow Tommy anywhere She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy And even if they have to run away She’s gonna marry that boy someday
Katie and Tommy at the drive-in movie Parked in the very last row They’re to busy holding on to one another To even care about the show Later on outside the Tasty Freeze Tommy slips something on her hand He says, “my high school ring will have to do ‘Til I can buy a wedding band”
Her daddy say’s, “he ain’t worth a lick When it comes to brains He got the short end of the stick” But Katie’s young and man she just don’t care She’d follow Tommy anywhere She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy And even if they have to run away She’s gonna marry that boy someday
Her Daddy’s waitin’ up ’til half past twelve When they come sneakin’ up the walk He says, “young lady get on up to your room While me and junior have a talk” Momma breaks in says, “don’t lose your temper It wasn’t very long ago When you yourself was just a hay seed plow boy Who didn’t have a row to hoe”
“My daddy said, ‘you wasn’t worth a lick When it came to brains you got the short end of the stick’ But he was wrong and honey, you are too Katie looks at Tommy like I still look at you” She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy What’s meant to be will always find a way She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy She’s in love with the boy What’s meant to be will always find a way She’s gonna marry that boy someday