Let me tell you 'bout a friend of mine   He's a short order cook   Long on speed, short on spice   He reads his customers like a book   He's seen this, and he's done that   Now he's makin' fried eggs an art   But there's one thing he can't fix no how   There's a longing in his heart   He's tried for years to work it out   At the grill and at his home   Well he talks to his friends, talks to himself   He talks the chicken right off the bone   Talks to his woman and she understands   You know they're always eye to eye   She runs the join, They live out back   Small House under a Big sky   Well even the stars at night agree   The sky is falling apart   She knows cause she can feel it too   There's a longing in her heart   A longing in her heart   Longing in her heart   Well now you and me, we're just like them   We never wanted to be alone,   so we made a pact, sealed with desire   for a happier house and home   Only to find it doens't untie   The know where feelings die   There's a longing deep inside our hearts   And no one to tell us why   Our friends aren't looking for anything new   They wouldn't know where to look   Well her, she like running the joint   And he likes being a cook   Together they're doing very well   They're might glad they could   But there's a fire burning towards them now   Coming from a distant wood   And eve the stars at night agree   that the sky is falling apart   We know 'cause we can feel it too   There's a longing in our hearts