The Gambler

Slow down,
We've got time left to be lazy
All the kids have bloomed from babies
Into flowers in our eyes.
We've got 50 good years
Left to spend out in the garden
I don't care to beg your pardon,
We should live until we die
We were barely 18
When we'd crossed collective hearts.
It was cold, but it got warm
When you'd barely crossed my eye.
And then you turned, put out your hand,
And you asked me to dance.
I knew nothing of romance,
But it was love at second sight
I swear when I grow up,
I won't just buy you a rose.
I will buy the flower shop,
And you will never be lonely.
Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
I will not leave,
I will not leave till it's our time.
So just take my hand, you know
That I will never leave your side
It was the winter of '86,
And all the fields had frozen over.
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
And now he's turning to a man,
Although he thinks just like his mother,
He believes we're all just lovers
He sees hope in everyone
And even though she moved away,
We always get calls from our daughter.
She has eyes just like her father's
They are blue when skies are grey
And just like him, she never stops,
Never takes the day for granted,
Works for everything that's handed to her,
Never once complains
You think that I nearly lost you
When the doctors tried to take you away.
Like the night you took my hand
Beside the fire
30 years ago to this day
You swore you'd be here till
We decide that it's our time
But it's not time,
You've never quit in all your life.
So just take my hand, you know
That I will never leave your side.
You're the love of my life,
You know that I will never leave your side
You come home from work
And you kiss me on the eye
You curse the dogs you say
That I should never feed them what is ours
So we move out to the garden
Look at everything we've grown
And the kids are coming home
So I'll set the table
You can make the fire.