White Lies And Picket Fences Lyrics - Life Happened - Tammy Cochran

Billy leaned on the hood of the car 

With a match stick in his mouth 

And I watched him through 

The crack in the windshield 

We were goin' South 

All the way down to Alabama 

Said he had a job down there 

But we were gonna drive 

Just a little bit further 

And get a room somewhere 

We drove past little white houses 

With porch swings and there was 

Always someone else's kids in the yard 

And I remember sayin' 

"Hey, wouldn't it be nice if we could live that way" 

And he was always sayin', "We were gonna 

But sometimes you should listen to your mama 

'Cause someday, some boy is gonna tell ya 

How he'll treat you like a princess 

But sometimes they're just little white lies 

With picket fences 

Well, I spent most of that year waitin' tables 

'Cause Billy's job, well, it didn't work out 

And one night he took the cash 

That we kept in the kitchen 

And he cut clean out of town 

Now I'm looking out the window 

Of this run down apartment 

A little older now and six months along 

And sometimes I think about Billy 

But most times I don't 

I think about little white houses 

With porch swings and there was 

Always someone else's kids in the yard 

And I remember sayin' 

"Hey, wouldn't it be nice if we could live that way 

And he was always sayin' "We were gonna 

But sometimes you should listen to your mama 

'Cause someday, some boy is gonna tell ya 

How he'll treat you like a princess 

But sometimes they're just little white lies 

With picket fences 

Billy leaned on the hood of the car 

With a match stick in his mouth