Ready Made (feat. Mike Antonovich, bass & Ian Frey, drums)

I once met a girl with raven-black hair With a word and a smile I was hers She told me her story of trying to trust As she pushed past her life's saboteurs With two children in tow from another life lived The warrior in her stood strong And I found myself fighting to stay who I was While finding a way to belong People aren't born afraid; they're taught to be The things she had been through almost became A wall between her world and me It's not the fairytale romance we all dream about But the stones on the path made us strong Fifteen years of this ready-made life Turned the stones to dust before long The first-born was the girl on the moon With a crutch and a chair and a smile Funny girl trapped on a runaway ship Overshadowed my life's biggest trial Then Little Boy Blue scared he wouldn't be seen And fighting to be his own man The wonder in him awoke wonder in me I never thought I'd feel again I sang that Harry Chapin song a thousand times As years go by I finally see The reason in the rhymes It's not the fairytale romance we all dream about But the stones on the path made us strong Fifteen years of this ready-made life Turned the stones to dust before long "Love's like the sea It's a moving thing That takes its shape from the shore that it meets" It gets pulled into life by its own gravity And it turns with the two hearts that beat It's not the fairytale romance we all dream about But the stones on the path made us strong Fifteen years of this ready-made life Turned the stones to dust before long