One Man

They're building up big houses

Back behind the school

Where we used to drink

Our beer on Friday nights

And pretend that

We were lovers in your car

We can't afford to live there

So we drive on past their marble and glass

Hoping that this blue collar town of ours

Won't ever lose its balls

I was just a little girl

When your hand brushed by my hand

And I will be an old woman

Happy to have spent

My whole life with one man

Behind that school we found romance

We laid in the dirt and took off our shirts

While the lucky ones would fly away

On planes to other cities, other towns

Now they're building up houses

Big enough to lose your love

Big enough to never even see

One another in the dark

One man, one town is all I need

A simple plan to guide me

Through the simple life I lead

I have seen the ocean

And I have seen the sky

I do not need a big house

Or the ability to fly

We'll remember the summers

The crumbling town streets

Running from police

And acting like we'd leave this place

The minute we ever had the chance