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