Every Sunday morning I wake up   I see you by your dresser doing your make-up   Fluttering a Chinese fan in a Knoxville fashion   All last night you tossed and turned   Your body was hotter than the night that Richmond burned   You say you had a bad nightmare about tractor trailers crashing   Throw your arms around me   Let's keep this quiet   Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire   See our breath in the window, in the turning light   Oh it's a wonderful Life   You say you were only seventeen   When you fell in love with that dirty Reverend Green   I remember you at the baptism as he held his daughter down   We could hear Thelma and Louise   Making love under the Poplar trees   We could hear some screaming, sounded like a slaughterhouse   Throw your arms around me   Let's keep this quiet   Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire   See our breath in the window, in the siren light   Oh It's a wonderful Life   Me and Joey started a fire in the road   Just to watch it glow   His father didn't like it though, he gave Joey a black eye   Me and you we did the same damn thing   We fell in love knowing the pain it would bring   Now all I do is sing sad songs with red eyes   Throw your arms around me   Let's keep this quiet   Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire   See our breath in the window, in the turning light   Oh it's a wonderful Life