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[00:20.61]Fifteen months, first deployment
[00:24.80]I figured he'd be back by June
[00:31.41]Just a little late to meet his baby
[00:36.25]Thinking of it now makes me swoon.
[00:42.57]Thinking of it now makes me swoon.
[00:48.42]Sweep the house and run my errands
[00:54.08]Fill my day with lists of things to do
[00:59.02]Seems like every moment's filled with thinking
[01:04.43]Of a different way to tell him 'I love you'.
[01:10.83]Of a different way to tell him 'I love you'.
[01:24.55]Midnight and the candle in the kitchen
[01:30.26]Flickers once and rises clear and bright
[01:35.99]Hugs and tears, white lies and bedtime stories
[01:41.74]Questions without answers, wrong or right.
[01:47.66]Questions without answers, wrong or right.
[02:01.95]The first will be around again on Monday
[02:06.02]Another month that we'll be overdue
[02:13.06]He fights a lonely war out in a desert
[02:18.90]He fights a war to pay a mortgage too.
[02:30.08]The envelope is worn where it's been handled
[02:35.76]I read the letter nearly every night
[02:41.65]Sometimes I just hold it in my fingers
[02:46.47]Or pressed between my palms with all my might.
[02:53.84]Or pressed between my palms with all my might.
[03:04.49]I declare
[03:15.37]I declare
[03:24.80]Lord, I am scared
[03:34.61]I declare
[03:58.96]Sometimes when the distance dances heavy
[04:03.89]And the danger looms above me where I lay
[04:09.75]I know it's only his for that I'm worried
[04:14.30]While I am safe and he is far away.
[04:21.55]While I am safe and you're so far away.