You taught me how to love and taught me how to try
Told me how we only could hope to be right
Finding our way beneath a Tennessee sky
Lie beneath the stars and looking for the signs
We never seemed to worry beyond our eyes
Something so simple could never stand in time
You were never ready to take the name "Beautiful"
I was never ready to go
You were wasting time and I was so pitiful
Maybe, baby, now we know
We're better off alone
Living like a dream that drifts through our sleep
Falling all around us the reasons we keep
Fighting our way to every kiss so sweet
Running up the river to save my own soul
Trying to make it back to the place of my home
Every young lover exacts her very own toll