I Don't Want To Be A Bride

Album: Rabbits on the Run (2011)
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  • I like your company got a fresh philosophy
    Never knew such a gentleman
    You can take me on a cheap vacation
    I don't wanna have expectations 'cause you
    Could be the end of me

    I don't need a house on a hill
    Swing on a tree, a grandfather clock
    Porcelain for tea
    A garden, with rose and jasmine

    Gonna get drunk on a bottle of wine
    No better way to pass the time
    Forever by your side

    But I don't wanna be a bride
    Apologies to your mother
    I wanna be your girl
    And spend this life with you

    But I don't wanna wear white
    You know it's too late for that
    But can we keep the ever after?
    Could it be

    Don't need no golden ring
    It'd be no match for the love it brings
    From London to Tennessee

    We could catch a train to another life
    On a whim, under the moonlight
    I promise you, will you promise me?

    Our last names on a wooden sign
    Arm in arm, where the river starts to wind
    Forever by your side

    But I don't wanna be a bride
    Apologies to each other
    I wanna be your girl
    And spend this life with you

    But I don't wanna wear white
    You know it's too late for that
    But can we keep the ever after
    Oh could it be just you and me

    I, I, I we will live like kings
    Under lavender skies, skies
    We will live like kings
    Under lavender skies, skies

    Built a poem, we kept a rhyme
    Wrapped our love in golden twine
    We wrote, we wrote a legacy

    Just you and me
    Just you and me
    Just like kings under lavender
    Skies, skies
    We will Writer/s: ARI BRYAN INGBER, STEVE OSBOURNE, VANESSA CARLTON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Beth from N/a, VaKudos to Vanessa for expressing a point of view that isn't heard very often. Not all girls dream of getting married and it's great to finally have a song that speaks to that perspective.
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