Good morning, since you're standing
Would you top off my coffee cup
You've got bed hair, I've got no hair
You brew coffee better, but I was the first one up
I hear the children screming, but I'm dreaming
That there's no one here but me and you
I was just thinking 'bout when your winking
Was more than a game you played with the littlest two
If we sit across the table
I'm sure they'll be a moment that we recognize
The young look that we once saw in each other's eyes
If there were some way for us to get away
Everyone would see how I feel about you
You can believe me, you can see me
I will hold your hand when you're feeling blue
If we sit across the table
They'll be no way that we can ever disguise
The way we feel about each other, from the other's eyes
There's a simple answer to any problem
But it's not always so simple to see
If we can just keep holding on
Then we can hold on forever,
Hold on, hold on, hold on, to you and me
End of the day, everything is ok
As long as we can just talk quietly
We can look at each other, forget we're father and mother
We can be the couple that we still want to be
When we sit across the table
We don't have to ask questions, no who, what, or why
We just know all the answers to have, from each other's eyes
There the light that never goes out, in each other's eyes
Commentary
I began this one last year sometime. I'm still working through some of my song lyrics without music, song lyrics that need to be finished, and old ideas that are worth reviving. I described this one at the time I started it as "a love song without the word 'love' in it". It only needed minor tweaking last night and today.
The entry from last night, "Heels, With No Backs" began in an email to Shirley Spencer in 2006, in the same week that I wrote "Lost In Your Direction", "The Sun Shines In The Winter", "Things Aren't Gonna Change", and "It Is Today". I'll probably never be so prolific again, almost everything I started was worth finishing. Of the five songs "Heels" was the most unfinished, I've picked it up now and again and finally finished it this week.
