[ti:Eighteen Inches] [ar:Lauren Alaina] [al:Wildflower] [00:00.00]LAUREN ALAINA - Eighteen Inches [00:04.00] [00:18.13]It's about fifteen hundred miles to California, [00:23.42]They'll get there Friday if they leave tonight, [00:27.85]She sneaks out at three thirty in the morning, [00:31.94]Leaves a note so she won't see her daddy cry. [00:36.62] [00:45.72]He cuts the engine when he coasts in the driveway, [00:50.09]She slides in and gives him one kiss for the road, [00:54.37]No friends and no family, no job out there waiting, [00:58.88]The whole town will call them crazy but they gotta go. [01:03.28] [01:03.77]'Cause when you're young and in love, yeah, [01:08.06]You might do some things that don't seem all that smart, [01:12.31]'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your [01:19.44]Head to your heart, yeah. [01:29.53] [01:30.60]They can barely make rent on a rundown apartment, [01:35.06]She's waiting tables and he's a valet, [01:39.33]They're behind on the bills and the car's barely running, [01:43.92]But he buys a ring with the tips that he's saved. [01:48.27] [01:48.84]When you're young and in love, yeah, [01:53.09]You might do some things that don't seem all that smart, [01:57.41]'Cause there ain't no greater distance than the eighteen inches from your [02:04.36]Head to your heart. [02:08.10] [02:11.40]Last thing they need is another mouth to feed, but they won't call, [02:20.23]Just kids themselves but that's all to change in nine more months, [02:28.53] [02:29.47]She wakes him up at three thirty in the morning, [02:33.82]Ready or not their new life's going to start, [02:38.50]Seven pounds and eighteen inches, [02:45.28]The doctor lays that new baby's head right on her heart. [02:51.71] [02:55.35]When you're young and in love, yeah, [02:59.48]You might do some things that don't seem all that smart, [03:04.04]But thank God for those eighteen inches, [03:09.71]The distance it is from your head to your heart, yeah, yeah, yeah. [03:26.02]