Back when I was eighteen

Life gave me nothing but a sweet sweet kiss

You give a man ten more years

You can see what it does to him

I took a bus to the Great Salt Lake

And moved South to a city of sin

There was a dark dark cloud hanging overhead

I met my baby in a checkout line

We were laughing the cashier's shoes

She asked me if I wasn't going nowhere

I'll go nowhere if it's going with you

We got married on a rainy Sunday

I got nervous and lost my cool

There was a bright bright cloud hanging over you

I hope my lover is pure

I show my very best

There's no good reason why the things I've got are the things I'm supposed to give

There was a bright bright cloud hanging overhead

We bought a house in the downtown district

I was singing to pay the bills

You danced naked on our kitchen table

We were wild young

And ready to live

I swore that you were the only girl

That I could ever be crazy for

Yes I said love is just another word and I'll use for it

I hope my lover is pure

I show my very best

There's no good reason why the things I've got are the things I'm supposed to give

There was a dark dark cloud hanging overhead

I woke up nine years later

To a woman that I don't even see

I buy her presents in the snowy season

We'll make love every other week

I call my parents on the weekends

That I've been drinking a bit too hard

Now there's a dark dark cloud hanging in my heart

I hope my lover is pure

I show my very best

There's no good reason why the things I've got are the things I'm supposed to give

There is a dark dark cloud hanging overhead

There is a dark dark cloud hanging overhead