Story Behind The Song

Life, relationships and a really stupid Burke's diamonds ad

Song Description

Sometimes intimacy is only skin deep... just 'cause you can finish her sentences doen't mean you've ever really known her... a Fifteen year perpective.

Lyrics

Fifteen
Fifteen years, on the card it said
"Happy Anniversary Dear"
Fifteen years in a married bed
And how the hell did he get here?

She knows he likes them over-easy
Double sugar, just one cream
But after fifteen years
She don't know a damn thing about him

Fifteen years of standin' pat
Fifteen years of tryin'
Fifteen years, three kids and a cat
Fifteen years providin'

She knows he likes his collars button-down
And his mornings at the gym
But after fifteen years
She don't know a damn thing about him

She don't know...
the demons that he struggles with each night
'till he barely has the strength to fight 'em
She don't know...
he's got a hundred great novels inside
if he'd only had the chance to write 'em
She don't know...
There's not a day he doesn't think about
Another girl who might have wore that ring
'Cause after fifteen years
He hasn't told her a God damn thing

Fifteen years on a velvet box
With a diamond bracelet in it
Fifteen years, where could it have gone
Sometimes feels more like fifteen minutes

He knows she'll order the beef bourguignonne
And the wine she will prefer
But after fifteen years
He don't know a damn thing about her

He don't know...
she's keeps her eyes closed every moring just
tryin' to make the night's dream last
He don't know ...
she lost the first boy she ever loved
in a motorcycle crash
He don't know...
she'd pack it in, in a minute for
the chance to get on stage and sing
'Cause after fifteen years
She hasn't told him a God damn thing

(©2002-Thomas J. Wood)