I know in life I won't be
Satisfied unless I live
My life with you, don't wanna
Live one single day apart
I hope I die before you do
I know in life I won't be
Satisfied unless I live
My life with you, don't wanna
Live one single day apart
I hope I die before you do
His name was Jake O'brian he was 17
Her name was Olive Finn
She was everything to him
She never even knew him 'till he
Walked up to her with a bouquet of
Petunias, and a heart so pure
And she was so pretty, he thought she
Was the prettiest girl in Kilkenny
He saved every penny that he had
Working on the train tracks so
He could buy a ring for her
When he came back, and he dropped
To his knee, said you could marry
Any man in Ireland madam but it's
Got to be me
But when she said no
He felt he had to go, so he traveled
To America on a ferry boat, but
Then there was the void, cause she just couldn't live without him
She was sick without him
So she filled out immigration papers
And showed up on his door step 30 days later
And said this
I know in life I won't be
Satisfied unless I live
My life with you, don't wanna
Live one single day apart
I hope I die before you do
I know in life I won't be
Satisfied unless I live
My life with you, don't wanna
Live one single day apart
I hope I die before you do
They had four kids over fourteen years
And protected each one from the poor things fierce
And protected each other
From the city it was so cruel
In the back yard watch the summer
Weather grow cool
And it was so pretty, when fall came
It transformed the whole entire city
There was so much love' within them
That Olive said to Jake I'm a stay with
You forever on one condition
We're passionate lovers, every night we
Sleep with our backs to each other
We're half of each other
And I don't wanna sleep one night
Of my life knowing your aren't next
To me hogging half of the covers
Promise me you'll let me die first
Cause I just couldn't live without
You, I'd be sick without you
I'd be a devastated lunatic without you
You wanna make my life perfect
This is how to
I know in life I won't be
Satisfied unless I live
My life with you, don't wanna
Live one single day apart
I hope I die before you do
I know in life I won't be
Satisfied unless I live
My life with you, don't wanna
Live one single day apart
I hope I die before you do
They got old 80+ years and this was
True love not a day was unclear
Cause this was true friendship, so even
When the kids went to college
They kept the romance polished
Jake+Olive, knifed in the back yard
Oak tree, lemonade, salad
Butterscotch, roast beef, you know
That old saying pick your poison
Well olive was a smoker, and jake
He was smoke free, uh
So when it came down to it
Lung cancer, chest tube
Draining all the fluid, olive on her death
Bed looked him in the eyes, but she
Didn't have to say a thing cause he
Already knew it, she closed her eyes
And then she went through it
Her last few breaths were like irish
Folk music, he told the people at the
Funeral that they were happy that you
Knew us, and covered olive's casket in
Petunias
And then he went home
He didn't feel quite
Right sleeping there alone, he was
Half of a whole, cracked in the soul
He sat there alive but his passion was
Dull, he missed olive
And he was so sick without her
Couldn't live without her
So he gave his final will to his
Neighbors, fell ill and died exactly
30 days later
The immigrants...