Let's Grow Old Together
Soft & Sweet
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I wore a black dress that your mother bought A red coat and a Windsor knot And a wedding ring you stole from Kay Jewelers You wore a black suit from Portugal The one you got for that funeral But we didn't have the means to start anew Well I hiccuped through the vows I wrote You played it off like a rehearsed joke I never feel embarrassed when I'm with you So we jumped inside of that broken van Drug a-dozen-or-so tin cans Writing "Just Married!" on the back windshield The first year was a testament To coping with our vices And learning how to treat shit properly From the Winter storm, to the hospital To the vague threats, metaphorical Someone pulled a gun at our wits' end But your shoulder kiss, and that song you wrote Like kids in class, we were passing notes Just to see the smirk that we'd hold back So by the time we reached our anniversary We'd been in love for centuries Time just slips away when I'm with you "So let's grow old together" "Build a better life than what we weathered" "Just to say we're not like them" "So let's not break our promise" "Even if we think it's common knowledge" "Just to say we're not like them" Forty years since wedding bells High hopes, health scares And just about everything in between So we slow danced to Elton John Red wine and caviar Trying not to think of what's ahead Choking tears in a rocking chair Life never treated either of us fair I prayed to God from a wooden door frame Push came to shove, so I sold the house Piled bills, no spouse Just pictures on the walls of our past life Assisted living facility No visitors, no family My husband doesn't come around no more The nurses try to tell me lies "Ms. Beth, Phil died" But he calls me on my cellphone every night They ask me how life used to be Said "I married him at seventeen" And we almost killed each other that first year I keep a letter that he wrote to me Tucked away in my diary "Don't go outside, the stars will envy you" And "Let's grow old together" "Build a better life than what we weathered" "Just to say we're not like them" "So let's not break our promise" "Even if we think it's common knowledge" "Just to say we're not like them" Oh, we're not like them
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