Carley Simon Thats The Way Ive Always Heard It Should Be Lyrics

Thats The Way Ive Always Heard It Should Be Lyrics

My father sits at night with no lights on 

His cigarette glows in the dark


The living room is still 

I walk by, no remark 

I tiptoe past
the master bedroom where 

My mother reads her magazines 

I hear her
call "Sweet dreams" 

But I forget how to dream 



But you say
it's time we moved in together 

And raised a family of our own, you and
me 

Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be 

You want
to marry me, we'll marry 



My friends from college they're all
married now 

They have their houses and their lawns 

They have
their silent noons 

Tearful nights, angry dawns 

Their children
hate them for the things they're not 

They hate themselves for what they
are 

And yet they drink, they laugh 

Close the wound, hide the scar




But you say it's time we moved in together 

And raised a
family of our own, you and me 

Well, that's the way I've always heard it
should be 

You want to marry me, we'll marry 



You say that
we can keep our love alive 

Babe, all I know is what I see 

The
couples cling and claw 

And drown in love's debris 

You say we'll
soar like two birds through the clouds 

But soon you'll cage me on your
shelf 

I'll never learn to be just me first by myself 



Well
O.K, it's time we moved in together 

And raised a family of our own, you
and me 

Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be 

You
want to marry me, we'll marry 

(Marry)