This Is Life

If we were in an MGM film
 We would kiss and walk through that door there
 If we were in a radio play
 We'd admit we're friends, but there's more there
 If we were singing Hammerstein songs
 We could fix all the wrongs in rhyme
 But this is life, with the heartache it brings
 And we know that these things take time
 If we were in a Hemingway book
 We would laugh and drink till the morning
 If this were a ballet, then I might sweep
 You off your feet without warning
 Or filmed noir with a dangerous affair
 I would ask if you'd care to stay
 But this is life, and I'm wondering if
 We should play it a different way
 Maybe perfect nights of celebration
 Hotel hallway brief flirtations
 Might be overrated
 Life's more complicated
 We could write our own take on it
 Or leave well enough, alone
 Shake on it
 Shake on it
 No one planned for a moment like this
 There's no perfect script that provides us
 Words to say or the answers that might
 Overcome the past that divides us
 Movie stars with the passions they feel
 Somehow in the last reel unite
 You know
 That's right
 But this is life, so at least for today
 We should probably say, good night