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Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy |
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All the kids are bloom from babies into flowers in our eyes |
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We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden |
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I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we die |
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We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts |
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It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye |
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And you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance |
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I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight |
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I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose |
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I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely |
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For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields |
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I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's on time |
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So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side |
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It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over |
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So we moved to Arizona to save our only son |
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And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother |
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He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone |
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And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter |
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She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray |
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And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted |
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Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complained |
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You think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you away |
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But like the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago |
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'Til this day, you swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time |
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But it's not time, you never quit in all your life |
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So just take my hand and know that I will never leave your side |
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You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side |
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You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye |
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You curse the dogs, you say that I should never feed them what is ours |
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So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown |
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And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire |