Your Are the One

She looks across the kitchen table

At the man she's loved for sixty years now

Maybe all of them weren't so grand

But she can still see him as a handsome young man

She used to hear him from across the park

Singing to the crowds on saturdays

And as she watched the children in her care

She imagined that they were theirs

And she could see beyond her twenty years

To a day when they would be one

To a day like today happy and gray

They can still sing "you are the one"

Well it wasn't quite how she'd imagined

Overseas and so far from home

He off somewhere in his uniform and

She waiting for him all day all all one

The loneliness almost drove her crazy

She tried to fill her days withempty chores

Things he didn't seem to notice

They were grooming him for war

But she could see beyond those painful years

To a day when they would be one

To a day like today happy and gray

They can still sing " you are the one"

And now she hears him from down the hall

Singing as he works at his desk

She's rearranging photos in the living room

And remembering all the things

That she loved the best

On his arm on their wedding day

Their first child on her breast

The way she feels when the family's all together

And the fragrance rising from the ceder chest

Brings her back to the day they met

And she could see beyond her twenty years...