Jacob,
he loved
Rachel
Rachel, she loved him
And
Leah was just there for
dramatic effect
Well, it's right there in the
Bible, so it must not be a sin
But it sure does seem like an
aw ful dirty trick
And this guy is just a pebble
pressed in the book of a memory
Of a time he thought he loved
her and they kissed
And her friends say, ah, he's a devil
And she says, no, he is a dream
This is the world as be st as I can re
member it
Now
Jacob got two women
And a whole house full of kids
And he schemed his way
back to the promised land
And he finds it's one thing to win him
And it's another
to keep him content
When he knows that he
is only just one man
And this guy's an empty bottle
And when he's drunk the ocean dries
Well he sails off three sheets
to some reckless wind
And his friends say, it awful?
And he says, no, I think it's fine
And this is the world as best
as I can remember it
Now
Paige was weeping for the children
She thought she could not bear
As she bears a sorrow that
she cannot hide
And she wishes she was with them
She looks and they're not there
Seems that love comes
for just a moment
And then it passes on by
And her sky's just abandoned
Swinging at the end of a
hangman's noose
Cause he stole the moon and
must be made to pay for it
And the friends say, my, that's tragic
She says, especially for her mom
And this is the world as be st
as I can remember it
And this is the world as be st as I
can remember it