Let me tell you 'bout a friend ofmine
  He's a short order cook
  Long on speed, short on spice
  He reads his customers like abook
  He's seen this, and he's done that
  Now he's makin' fried eggs anart
  But there's one thing he can't fixno how
  There's a longing in his heart
    He's tried for years to work it out
  At the grill and at his home
  Well he talks to his friends, talksto himself
  He talks the chicken right off thebone
  Talks to his woman and sheunderstands
  You know they're always eye toeye
  She runs the join, They live outback
  Small House under a Big sky
    Well even the stars at night agree
  The sky is falling apart
  She knows cause she can feel ittoo
  There's a longing in her heart
  A longing in her heart
  Longing in her heart
    Well now you and me, we're justlike them
  We never wanted to be alone,
  so wemade a pact, sealed with desire
  for a happier house and home
    Only to find it doens't untie
  The know where feelings die
  There's a longing deep inside ourhearts
  And no one to tell us why
      Our friends aren't looking foranything new
  They wouldn't know where tolook
    Well her, whe like running thejoin
  And he likes being a cook
  Together they're doing very well
  They're might glad they could
  But theres a fire burning towardsthem now
  Coming from a distant wood
    And eve the stars at night agree
  that the sky is falling apart
  We know 'cause we can feel it too
  There's a longing in our hearts