I'm glad I got to take the trip down Memory Road with you yesterday
Because there's still so much I don't know about you,
The you that there was before you met me
And your heart so damaged is always so afriad to open up
Because still - i am just a girl, and girls break boys' hearts --
every girl, that is, except one.
But she broke your heart too - your mother.
But that's the difference between girlfriends and mothers --
We girlfriends move on and try to replace you when its over;
But mothers tend to keep everything in your room just as you left it years ago
And the pictures of smiling memories still hanging on their walls.
And for as much as you swore that this woman didn't care -
That's not what i saw when i sat on her couch last night and watched her.
She hung on your every word -- probably barely even listening to the stories you told
Because she couldn't believe that after all this time
Her pride and joy was sitting here in front of her again.
The smile of genuine happiness never left her face for a moment
And you had so much to tell each other
That i felt like I should sink into the couch and disappear
So that the two of you could run wild with this time together.
She was so proud when she showed me the pictures of you in your Marines uniform,
And telling me about how you were always so smart,
And how long and hard she had searched for you, only to be disappointed
But you say she ran into you by chance, when the time was right for both of you,
Because the time wasn't right when I paid to find her address 2 Christmases ago,
When you didn't want anything to do with a family, and headed off to work on Christmas Eve - not giving a fuck.
And the time wasn't right when you came back from Florida, and had no one to come home to
But you would have rather had no one than see her.
I tried to understand what could have happened that was so bad
That a mother and son should be separated for the rest of forever on this earth,
So close yet so far away
But i could never really understand
And last night, when we were leaving her house, the house you grew up in,
She hugged you like she never wanted to let you go again,
The way only a mother can hug her now-grown son
And i thought it was maybe the most beautiful moment in the whole world,
When i heard you tell the first and only woman in your life
"I love you."
Because there's still so much I don't know about you,
The you that there was before you met me
And your heart so damaged is always so afriad to open up
Because still - i am just a girl, and girls break boys' hearts --
every girl, that is, except one.
But she broke your heart too - your mother.
But that's the difference between girlfriends and mothers --
We girlfriends move on and try to replace you when its over;
But mothers tend to keep everything in your room just as you left it years ago
And the pictures of smiling memories still hanging on their walls.
And for as much as you swore that this woman didn't care -
That's not what i saw when i sat on her couch last night and watched her.
She hung on your every word -- probably barely even listening to the stories you told
Because she couldn't believe that after all this time
Her pride and joy was sitting here in front of her again.
The smile of genuine happiness never left her face for a moment
And you had so much to tell each other
That i felt like I should sink into the couch and disappear
So that the two of you could run wild with this time together.
She was so proud when she showed me the pictures of you in your Marines uniform,
And telling me about how you were always so smart,
And how long and hard she had searched for you, only to be disappointed
But you say she ran into you by chance, when the time was right for both of you,
Because the time wasn't right when I paid to find her address 2 Christmases ago,
When you didn't want anything to do with a family, and headed off to work on Christmas Eve - not giving a fuck.
And the time wasn't right when you came back from Florida, and had no one to come home to
But you would have rather had no one than see her.
I tried to understand what could have happened that was so bad
That a mother and son should be separated for the rest of forever on this earth,
So close yet so far away
But i could never really understand
And last night, when we were leaving her house, the house you grew up in,
She hugged you like she never wanted to let you go again,
The way only a mother can hug her now-grown son
And i thought it was maybe the most beautiful moment in the whole world,
When i heard you tell the first and only woman in your life
"I love you."
Its touching with its simplicity. Its just a really good piece, and it'll make you think a bit. And the way you ended it, its perfect. Awesome job!
