John & Josie

John and Josie's only child, young and handsome, fast and wild
 Joined the army at eighteen, left the army at eighteen
 Drifted then from job to job, town to town and love to love
 Seven years forever til young Johnny came marching home
 But Johnny wasn't looking well, went into the hospital
 Days turned into several weeks, Johnny kept on losing weight
 Josie said to John "Sit down", John cried "Oh God, not my son"
 Johnny left at twenty five, a hole as big as Jupiter
 Nothing stronger than the love John and Josie had for Johnny
 Threw him his last birthday party, no one from the family came
 No one from the family came, turned John and Josie's grief to shame
 Shame to anger, anger pain, nothing they needed more of
 Two years gone, the telephone is ringing in the dim-lit den
 Beneath the wooden crucifix that John had punched the day he learned
 That Johnny wouldn't live much longer, now a voice said to his father
 "John, we have a baby here and no one seems to want him
 The baby doesn't have his parents, two months old and with their virus."
 Josie grabbed the phone from John, the two of them said "Yes, yes, yes"
 So John and Josie, over sixty, taking in a brand new baby
 Named him Paul Antonio, Johnny would have loved him
 Nothing stronger than the love that John & Josie had for Johnny
 The same love that they have for Paul, they're starting up the wheel again
 And of the fear the same could happen, losing Paul before his time comes
 John and Josie look right past it, they're basking in love's mighty presence