The Real Life Lyrics by John Mellencamp

The Real Life Lyrics

    Suzanne divorced her husband
    She got the keys and the car and the home
    But her friends were really his friens
    No one stops by to see her much any more
    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 to life 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 tv
    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 supposed to do
    Now i´d like to maybe do something
    For myself
    And just as soon, i figure out what
    That is
    You can bet your live
    I´m gonna give it hell"
    He says

    I want to live the real life
    I want to life 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 tv
    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 to those ones, that are
    Young at heart
    It´s a lonely proposition when you
    Realize
    That 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 to life 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 tv
    I want the real life
    I want to live the real life.

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