It's fifteen hundred miles to California, get there Friday if they leave tonight, She sneaks out at three in the morning, a note so she won't see her daddy cry.
He cuts the engine 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 some that don't seem all that smart, Cause ain't no greater distance Than the inches from your 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 car's 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 inches from head to your heart.
Last thing they is another mouth to feed, but they want one, They're just kids themselves but that's gonna change in more months,
She him up at three thirty in the morning, or not their new life's gonna start, Seven and eighteen inches, The doctor that new baby's 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 to your heart, yeah, yeah, yeah.