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...