Just when I'm sure that I've got it all down

Somethin' jumps up and spins me around

Sometimes it's the light from my little boy's eyes

Takin' me by surprise



I've been to the city and I've been to the zoo

Learned all about monkey-see, monkey-do

Somewhere between the false and the true

We all compromise



But you and I broke every rule that they ever made

Don't ask why love is a chance that you take

And like leaves in the wind at the mercy of whither we blow

How little we know



I have seen the northern lights on a winter's day

Up in Minnesota people like it that way

So much in nature I don't understand

It's a mystery not a plan



Lookin' for answers is goin' nowhere fast

Everything's forever but nothin' seems to last

Come tomorrow, today will be the past

Like waves upon the sand



You and I broke every rule that they ever made

Don't ask why love is a chance that you take

And like leaves in the wind at the mercy of whither we blow

How little we know



And in the end what matters most

Is how the heart will rise

And see us through the dramas till we realize

How little we know



You and I broke every rule that they ever made

Don't ask why love is a chance that you take

And like leaves in the wind at the mercy of whither we blow

How little we know



Just when I'm sure that I've got it all down

Somethin' jumps up and spins me around