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