The Real Life
John Mellencamp
Letra

Suzanne divorced her husband

She got the keys and the car and the home

But her friends were really his friens

No one stops by to see her much any more

So one night, she goes back down to

The old haunts

That once upon a time were her own

She didn´t know nobody out there no

More

And the whole experience just made her

Feel so old

She says...



I want to live the real life

I want to life my life close to the bone

Just because I´m middle-aged that

Don´t mean

I want to sit around my house and watch TV

I want the real life

I want to live the real life



Jackson Jackson was a good kid

He had four years of college

And a bachelor´s degree

Started workin, when he was 21

Got fed up and quit

When he was forty three

He said, "My whole life

I´ve done, what I supposed to do

Now I´d like to maybe do something

For myself

And just as soon, I figure out what

That is

You can bet your live

I´m gonna give it hell"

He says...