Misty River - Box of Lace lyrics

The house is sold, it's almost moving day I'm Cleaning out things from yesterday Mom's in the closet with her old hope chest She finds the box with her wedding dress Worn just once and then packed away Safely sealed behind celophane While love and marriage grew and changed The wedding dress remained CHORUS: There's a handful of heart A heart full of faith A flicker of hope And a moment of grace There's a gentle word A warm embrace And buckets of love In this box of lace It's Saturday and the TV's on With old home movies from when I was young I look now like my mother did then She was so young with two children And my dad in his overalls With uncombed hair and a basketball My big brother is three feet tall Were we ever so small CHORUS Mom understood more than I ever knew In thirty years she's done some changing, too On that afternoon I heard her say A marriage isn't a wedding day And a wedding dress isn't who you are You sell it now and buy a guitar Live your dreams and I know you'll go far My daughter, my star It's been five years since that day Today I'm moving into my own place All my records fill up my car My coffeemaker and my new guitar And an old white box fraying at the seams Containing silk and lace and dreams A winning ticket I cannot redeem It holds my mother's faith in me CHORUS