Eighteen Inches

	  		




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  It's about fifteen hundred miles to California  
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  They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight  
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  She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning  
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  Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry 

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  He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway 
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  She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road 
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  No friends and no family, no job out there waiting 
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  The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go 


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  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah  
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  You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart 
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  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your 
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  Head to your heart 

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  They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment 
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  She's waiting tables and he's a valet 
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  They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running  
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  But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved 


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  'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah  
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  You might do sgome things that don't seem all that smart 
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  'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your 
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  Head to your heart 

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  Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call 
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  Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months 

  
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  She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning 
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  Ready or not their new life's gonna start 
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  Seven pounds and eighteen inches 
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  The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart 

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  When you're young and in love, yeah  
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  You might do some things that don't seem all that smart  
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  But thank God for those eighteen inches  
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  The distance it is from your head to your heart 

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