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Once_Upon_a_Time

Jeff Ott
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Hundred years ago When life was so slow Everybody grew up and died in the same town Everybody knew the business of everybody else I know it sounds kind of funny today But I guess it's just a trade off between privacy And accountability to the community And if you wanted to date You'd have to meet her dad, not get home late You'd have to make a public declaration of your intention What is your intention? Your intention Once upon a time long ago We had a structure to make it less possible For a man to play the game of love 'em and leave 'em Once upon a time long ago Guys were just a little more accountable To their word and keeping it In whole In whole Then came Henry Ford and we all got cars We stopped living in our grandma's house We became single-generation families We all got up and left our hometowns We lost the accountability of my love life Being everyone else's business Then came 1969 We gained the ability to recognize That for us, relationship meant ownership of a woman Along came some crazy radical to tell us A woman could be a whole person Without being defined by a man By a man No woman is a whole person Without being defined by a man Once upon a time not long ago We destroyed the structure from which our families did grow And divorce became what's normal for my generation Once upon a time not long ago We destroyed the structure from which our families did grow And divorce became what's normal for my generation My generation I think by now we know babies need a nest And we're just trying to figure out what would be best Because we've clearly outgrown everything that we've ever known Possession doesn't work anymore And the kids don't do that well with divorce Is it too much to ask to know I was made in love and raised in love? I was made in love and raised in love In love Once upon a time and that time is now We get the difficult job of trying to figure out How to do relationship in a way that's new That respects the both of us Once upon a time and that time is now We get the difficult job of trying to figure out How to do relationship in a way that's new That respects the both of us And the little ones too And the little ones too So I gotta admit I only wrote this song 'Cause when I go to one, I hear it all day long He said, he said he loved me And why won't she just leave me alone? If you wanna know if he'll stick around Just take a real good look around your hometown Does he wanna meet your family? Or does he wanna do your grandmother's gardening? Young man, if you wanna build a wall around your heart I guess constantly leaving is a good place to start It's much easier to stick with chickenshit Than to admit you're in pain and deal with it It's much easier to stick with chickenshit Than admit you're in pain and deal with it Did he say it's gonna last forever? Did he say it's now or never? Did he really say that you're the only one? Did he say "I'm always gonna love you"? Did he say "I'm never gonna leave you"? Did he mention he's got a girlfriend in every town? In every town, in every town Once upon a time and that time is now We get the difficult job of trying to figure out How to do relationship in a way that's new That respects the both of us Once upon a time and that time is now We get the difficult job of trying to figure out How to do relationship in a way that's new That respects the both of us and little ones too And the little ones too