White Lies And Picket Fences - Lyrics - Tammy Cochran

Tammy Cochran is an American country music artist. Signed to Epic Records Nashville in 2000, she released her self titled debut album that year, followed a year later by Life Happened. These two albums produced a total of six chart singles for her on the Billboard country charts between 2000 and 2003, of which the highest-charting was "Angels in Waiting" at No. 9. A third album, Where I Am, followed in 2007.

Billy leaned on the hood of the car, With a match stick in his mouth And I watched him through the crack in the windshield, we were goin' South. All the way down to Alabama, said he had a job down there. But we were gonna drive just a little bit further and get a room somewhere. We drove past little white houses, with porch swings and there was always someone else's kids in the yard, And I remember sayin', hey wouldn't it be nice if we could live that way, And he was always sayin' we were gonna, but sometimes you should listen to your mama, Cause someday, some boy is gonna tell ya How he'll treat you like a princess, But sometimes they're just little white lies with picket fences. Well I spent most of that year waitin' tables Cause Billy's job well it didn't work out And one night he took the cash in the kitchen And he cut clean out of town Now I'm looking out the window of this run down apartment, A little older now and six months along, And sometimes I think about Billy But most times I don't. I think about little white houses, with porch swings and there was always someone else's kids in the yard And I remember sayin' hey wouldn't it be nice if we could live that way, And he was always saying we were gonna, But sometimes you should listen to your mama cause someday, some boy is gonna tell ya How he'll treat you like a princess But sometimes they're just little white lies with picket fences. Billy leaned on the hood of the car, With a match stick in his mouth.