A  c a b i n   i n   t h e   h i l l s 

We had what they wanted, we had it all

good news and happy smiles on every Christmas card

but like the Berlin wall, they watched us fall

And the rooster knows when the need for him goes because she’s such a cleaver hen 

the pig messes his hay before he goes on his way out of the torn and tattered pen 

but she screams Amen

I'll start a life alone in a cabin in the hills

and work through all this disbelief with therapy and pills while you pay my bills

Summers by the sea, winters in the mountains

in the springtime tulips grew outside a happy home

but in the thirty fifth fall this union fell apart

after all this time together now where do we go?

I'll start a life alone in a cabin in the hills

and meditate these days away taking deep breaths until

I've worked through all this disbelief and can leave it all behind 

and can find myself at last alone now with a peaceful mind

I've got myself at last alone now with this peaceful mind

peaceful mind

I had what I wanted, but then burned crisp I swore off your kind

and so my mother and I together go along our ways 

to find independent routs for women unsure in these days 

when one can build her home and breed alone and as sure as we can

we still may find a guilty pleasure in the comfort of a man

there's always room for natures comfort in the warm arms of a man

So now I've got my life alone in a cabin in the hills

but I've left the door cracked open now with warm pie on the sill

and an open mind about your kind and hope to find a friend 

and to start a nice new story this one with a happy end

I'll start a nice new story this one with a happy end. 




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