It's fifteen hundred miles to California, They'll get there Friday if leave tonight, She sneaks out at three in the morning, Leaves a note so she won't see her cry.
He cuts the when he coasts in the driveway, She slides in and him one kiss for the road, No friends and no family, no job out waiting, The town will call them crazy but they gotta go.
Cause when young and in love, yeah, You might do things that don't seem all that smart, there ain't no greater distance Than the eighteen inches from your head to heart, yeah.
can barely make rent on a rundown apartment, She's tables and he's a valet, behind on the bills and the car's barely running, But he buys a ring with the that he's saved.
When you're and in love, yeah, You might do some things that don't all that smart, Cause there ain't no greater Than the eighteen inches from your head to heart.
Last they need is another mouth to feed, but they want one, They're just kids but that's gonna change in nine more months,
She wakes him up at thirty in the morning, or not their new life's gonna start, Seven and eighteen inches, The doctor lays new baby's head right on her heart.
When you're and in love, yeah, You might do some things that seem all that smart, But thank God for those inches, The distance it is from your head to heart, yeah, yeah, yeah.