Now the kids are growing up so fast We don't know what it's for but You know it's never going to last These are different times that we're living in We'll be soldiers for you, mommy and daddy We're soldiers now in the culture war We're soldiers now, but

But I can't stay mad at you for anything We're Venus and Mars (Venus and Mars) We're like different stars (like different stars) Like fire and rain (Like fire and rain) You can drive me insane (You can drive me insane) And I wouldn't change a thing But

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend How the sky turns to fire Against the telephone wire And even I'm getting tired of useless desires Say goodbye to the old street that never cared much for you anyway And the different colored doorways you thought

Let me hear it now We all come in from the cold We come down from the wire An everybody warms themselves To a different fire When sometimes we get burned You'd think sometime we'd learn

That nashville, wouldn't be nashville, without you It'd be just another river town Streets would have a different sound Hey fire, burnin' round the ring Hey crazy, you know it's true There'd be no honky tonks with whiskey rounds No dreamers chasin'

Oh no, tears are falling Oh no, tears are falling (whoo oh) And then it's raining feels like it's raining I read your mind like an open book You lost the fire in your eyes You turn to me with a different look looks like it's raining Something is wrong as