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Jake + Olive

[x2:]

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,

[x2:]

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 4 kids over 14 years,

And protected each one from the poor

Things fierce, and protected each other

From the city it was 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

Were passionate lovers, every night we

Sleep with our backs to each other

Were 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, iId be sick without you,

I'd be a devastated lunatic without you

You wanna make my life perfect,

This is how to,

[x2:]

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 hole, 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...

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Lyrics submitted by Ruairi Madden.

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