You know it's alright
  Just to take me home
  To your serious house, with your serious tones
  You're a serious man, with a serious smile
  But the summer is hot and I might surprise you
    In a very short while we'll have left them behind
  With their faces quite pained
  As they try to remind themselves
  Oh, it's really so wrong
  It's really so out
  And it's really not cool to take a young girl about
    And I know the young man with a century's face
  A philosopher king - he will try to amaze
  With examples of love and examples of hate
  And to see them explode
  We will just have to
    It's a simple love story
  It grows better all the time
  You can tell me all about it
  But first I'll tell you about mine
    You know it's alright to be trustful, have tact
  But the problem's complex
  When you keep holding back
  We could talk for an hour
  We could talk for a day
  But the people we know would still have their say
    Talk of such virtuous women
  Talk of such noble men
  But if I'm on the level I have met none of them
  Oh, I've met troubled people with deep and dark thoughts
  Who have hallowed my name
  And sworn I will get caught
  But why waste real feeling and
  Why waste our time
  To let the earth bow to no virtue of
    It's a simple love story
  It grows better all the time
  You can tell me all about it
  But first I'll tell you about mine
    You know it's alright to just make mistakes
  But to tail in with hurt - is the gravest make
  We all create lives which we don't understand
  But to point the accused is a job for no man
  And we curse our own longing - and curse our own ways
  I won't be satisfied with my soul that's
    It's a simple love story
  It grows better all the time
  You can tell me all about it
  Now I've told you about mine