The Real Life - John Mellencamp

    Suzanne divorced her husband
    She got the keys to the car and the home
    But her friends were really his friends
    No one stops by to see her much anymore
    So one night she goes back down to the old haunts
    That once upon a time were her own
    She didn't know nobody out there no more
    And the whole experience just made her feel so old
    She says

    I want to live the real life
    I want ot live my life close to the bone
    Just because I'm middle-aged that don't mean
    I want to sit around my house and watch T.V.
    I want the real life
    I want to live the real life

    Jackson Jackson was a good kid
    He had four years of college and a bachelor's degree
    Started workin' when he was 21
    Got fed up and quit
    When he was 43
    He said, "My whole life
    I've done what I'm supposed to do
    Now I'd like to maybe do something for myself
    And just as soon as I figure out what that is
    You can bet your life I'm gonna give it hell"
    He says

    I want to live the real life
    I want ot live my life close to the bone
    Just because I'm middle-aged that don't mean
    I want to sit around my house and watch T.V.
    I want the real life
    I want to live the real life

    I guess it don't matter how old you are
    Or how old one lives to be
    I guess it boils down to what we did with our lives
    And how we deal with our own destinies
    But something happens
    When you reach a certain age
    Particularly to those ones that are young at heart
    It's a lonely proposition when you realize
    That's there's less days in front of the horse
    Than riding in the back of this cart
    I say
     
    I want to live the real life
    I want ot live my life close to the bone
    Just because I'm middle-aged that don't mean
    I want to sit around my house and watch T.V.
    I want the real life
    I want to live the real life
     
     
     

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