Gary Charlson - Not the Way It Seems

Long summer nights,
lying here beside you,
I'll tiptoe downstairs now,
to write a song about you.
What we ask for when we're drifting through our dreams,
that life is not the way it seems.

Stonewalls are over,
waiting for the sunshine,
good love weekends,
when I know you're mine.
I can't really ask you what it plans and feels.
Life is not the way it seems,
life is not the way it seems.

Picnics in postcards,
sand in our shoes.
Women bury me at night,
feelin' so new.
Knowing you're beside me,
full of love and tameness.
We'll live a long year,
and we could really play more.

California heaven,
I can see the shoreline.
We'll live our lives together,
and everything will be fine.
? , life, let our lives be free.
Life, not the way, life, not the way,
life, not the way it seems.
Not the way it seems