Signing My Life Away

[couchgrouch]

Signing My Life AwayWe said we both hated our old apartmentripped up couch and red shag carpetand she had her heart set on a homebut the only way that we could get itwas beg for a line of creditfrom a suit at the savings and loanso I went down to First Federalwhen I put our future up for collateralI was signing my life awaycos somehow that dotted linefelt like a fence betweenme and what could be minethe pen was shaking in my handit seemed to understandI was signing my life awaywhen we drifted apart there was no pre-nupwe fought over those stupid tea-cupsin that lawyer's office just for spiteI wanted the truck...you got the Sportageyou got the house but I got the mortgageas if money could take sidesthat suit marked some spots with an Xsome needed names...some were boxes to checkI was signing my life awaycos somehow that dotted linefelt like a fence betweenme and what should be minethe pen was shaking in my handit seemed to understandI was signing my life awaythen I looked across the tabledeep into her eyesI saw us in that old apartmentso in love and I realizedshe still meant the world to meif I signed I'd just besigning my life awaycos somehow that dotted linefelt like a fence betweenme and what should be minethe pen was shaking in my handit seemed to understandI'd be signing my life away(c)2005 Robert George