A Saga For the Age

I could be your Johnny and you could be my June

And marry you beneath a paper moon

You could be Liz Taylor and fall in love with me

I'll be Richard Burton and never leave

I can't buy you all the things a yearning heart desires

But I can give you everything that burns within my fire

I am just a smalltown boy in a big world on my own

And I can't give you all the riches and jewels you'd like to own

But we could be a great love story, a saga for the age

And I will write you every song I can put down on this page

A saga for the age

A saga for the age

You be Cleopatra and I, Mark Antony

And make love in the temple while the city sleeps

You're Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler is me

And frankly I do give a damn about this thing

I don't have a limousine to come and drive you home

And I can't film a movie scene without you on my own

I am just a smalltown boy In a big world on my own

And I can't give you all the riches and jewels you'd like to own

But we could be a great love story, a saga for the age

And I will write you every song I can put down on this page

A saga for the age

A saga for the age

I'll be John Fitzgerald and you be Jackie O

And shelter me from everything that life will throw

In a hail of bullets like Bonny and Clyde

We will live forever 'cos we'll never die

I am just a smalltown boy In a big world on my own

And I can't give you all the riches and jewels you'd like to own

But we can be a great love story, a saga for the age

And I will write you every song I can put down on this page

A saga for the age

A saga for the age

A saga for the age

A saga for the age