Jackson Browne Intro 7 Lyrics

[Intro]
I mean, there's no law that says I gotta end this
You know, show really upbeat, right?
I mean, we can kind of—
The fact is that my truly cheerful material?
You know, there's not that much of it, you know?
And uh, uh
Oh, oh, here's one I
"Walking Slow"
Yeah, that's a good one, that's a good one
But this one's, this one's more like what I wanna do
This is, my girlfriend flew all the way from California to Maine
And uh, I meant to sing this song for her
And uh, you know, I forgot
So I'm gonna do it now, alright?
Yeah, "girlfriend" doesn't, you know "girlfriend" doesn't quite describe it You know, if you've been together for about, you know, well, over ten years
And you're still using the word "girlfriend," and you're like, you know
There are times when I call her my wife, you know
Like when we're traveling in Islamic countries
But, but I met these people at a wedding
Who got married after sixteen years
And the guy pulled me aside and said
"Tell you, man, as, as hard as the first year of marriage is
It's not nearly as hard as the seventeenth year of dating"