My father sits at night with no lights on His cigarette glows in the dark. My friends from college they're all married now; They have their houses and their lawns. You say we can keep our love alive Babe - all I know is what I see - I tiptoe past the master bedroom where My mother reads her magazines. Their children hate them for the things they're not; They hate themselves for what they are- You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, But soon you'll cage me on your shelf - Well O.K., it's time we moved in together And raised a family of our own, you and me - Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be, You want to marry me, we'll marry, We'll marry.