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 fifty 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 eighteen when we crossed collective hearts
 It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye
 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
 For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
 I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's on time
 So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side
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 It was the winter of eighty-six, all the fields had frozen over
 So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
 And now he's turned into a man, though 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 gray
 And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted
 Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complained
 You think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you away
 But like the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago
 'Til this day, you swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
 But it's not time, you never quit in all your life
 So just take my hand and know that I will never leave your side
 You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side
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 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