The Idea

Lyrics by：Liz Rose/Tofer Brown/Lauren Hungate

Composed by：Liz Rose/Tofer Brown/Lauren Hungate

Produced by：Karen Fairchild/Gena Johnson

The idea that twenty-four

Meant a white dress on the floor

Too much champagne and a plane to Mexico

Your idea was dinner made

TV on the kids are bathed

I'd still be fun like twenty-one

But that ain't ever how it goes

What you see and what you get

Ain't what you saw the day we met

Bet you never thought forever meant regret

You don't love me let's be honest

I ain't the woman that you wanted

If it wasn't for a promise you'd be gone

She's the dream that you created

She's the picture that you painted

But no matter how you hang it

It's still wrong ain't right for us

To try to live this life when

We know it ain't real

You don't love me

You just love the idea

Ain't an option not to make it

If we're unhappy we can fake it

If it hurts you go to work

We go to church we never tell

That it's gone to hell

You don't love me let's be honest

I ain't the woman that you wanted

If it wasn't for a promise you'd be gone

She's the dream that you created

She's the picture that you painted

But no matter how you hang it

It's still wrong ain't right for us

To try to live this life when

We know it ain't real

You don't love me

You just love the

Idea of picket fences

Be the envy of our friends

And do the things that all the perfect families do

'Cause you can't bear the thought of splitting things in two

You don't love me let's be honest

I ain't the woman that you wanted

If it wasn't for a promise you'd be gone long gone

She's the dream that you created

She's the picture that you painted

It don't matter if I hate it

It's still wrong ain't right for us

To try to live this life when

We know it ain't real

You don't love me

You just love the

You won't want me

You just want the idea