You know it's alright

Just to take me home


To your serious house, with your serious tones


You're a serious man, with a serious smile

But the summer is hot and I might surprise you



In a very short while we'll have left them behind


With their faces quite pained


As they try to remind themselves

Oh, it's really so wrong


It's really so out


And it's really not cool to take a young girl about



And I know the young man with a century's face

A philosopher king - he will try to amaze


With examples of love and examples of hate


And to see them explode

We will just have to



It's a simple love story


It grows better all the time


You can tell me all about it

But first I'll tell you about mine



You know it's alright to be trustful, have tact


But the problem's complex


When you keep holding back

We could talk for an hour


We could talk for a day


But the people we know would still have their say



Talk of such virtuous women

Talk of such noble men


But if I'm on the level I have met none of them


Oh, I've met troubled people with deep and dark thoughts

Who have hallowed my name


And sworn I will get caught


But why waste real feeling and

Why waste our time


To let the earth bow to no virtue of



It's a simple love story

It grows better all the time


You can tell me all about it

But first I'll tell you about mine



You know it's alright to just make mistakes

But to tail in with hurt - is the gravest make

We all create lives which we don't understand


But to point the accused is a job for no man

And we curse our own longing - and curse our own ways


I won't be satisfied with my soul that's


It's a simple love story

It grows better all the time


You can tell me all about it

Now I've told you about mine