Cover art for Wonderful Life by The Felice Brothers
Mar. 4, 20081 viewer

Wonderful Life Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Every Sunday morning I wake up
I see you by your dresser doing your make-up
Fluttering a Chinese fan in a Knoxville fashion

All last night you tossed and turned
Your body was hotter than the night that Richmond burned

You say you had a bad nightmare about tractor trailers crashing

[Chorus]
Throw your arms around me
Let's keep this quiet
Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire
See our breath in the window, in the turning light
Oh it's a wonderful Life

[Verse 2]
You say you were only seventeen
When you fell in love with that dirty Reverend Green

I remember you at the baptism as he held his daughter down
We could hear Thelma and Louise
Making love under the Poplar trees
We could hear some screaming, sounded like a slaughterhouse


[Chorus]
Throw your arms around me
Let's keep this quiet
Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire
See our breath in the window, in the siren light
Oh It's a wonderful Life
[Verse 3]
Me and Joey started a fire in the road
Just to watch it glow
His father didn't like it though, he gave Joey a black eye
Me and you we did the same damn thing
We fell in love knowing the pain it would bring
Now all I do is sing sad songs with red eyes

[Chorus]
Throw your arms around me
Let's keep this quiet
Hear our hearts in the distance like cannon fire
See our breath in the window, in the turning light
Oh it's a wonderful Life

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