[ti:Eighteen Inches]
[ar:Lauren Alaina]
[al:Wildflower]
[00:00.00]LAUREN ALAINA - Eighteen Inches
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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,
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[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.
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[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.
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