WE RHYME Her name was Madelyn Connors, And I am the man that she picked She watched her daddy's money built their house on the hill And watched me and my daddy laying every brick Her dad couldn't see us together And the truth is neither did mine They couldn't know from the very first time that we kissed We knew in our hearts we rhyme We're not poetry in motion like the ocean's blue waves We're just flashing flood emotion born in red Georgia clay Her love is a lyric a song with no lines We know in our hearts we rhyme The nurse held her up to the window and
I traced her face through the gla** She's got my love for sleeping And Madelyn's nose And I'm already thinking she'll grow up too fast I think of the day that's a coming When a boy wants this baby of mine I'm not sure that I'll like it But I'll have to let go, When she says to me Daddy we rhyme We're not poetry in motion like the ocean's blue waves We're just flashing flood emotion born in red Georgia clay Our love is a lyric a song with no lines We know in our hearts we rhyme We know in our hearts we rhyme