Pedal Steel

The whole ride home, I thought about your life
 How you were just nineteen when you took a wife
 Thought of a young man, landing in France
 Braver then me, the first to show up at the dance
 And I thought what you told me that night in Berlin
 How you may lose, but there's no way you'll win
 Leaving your country when you were just ten
 You came to Wisconsin, and they let you in
 My heart, it feels like a pedal steel
 My heart knows what is real
 And of all of the books that you told me to read
 Here's my little secret, if you'd stay and won't leave
 You left me your shirts, a belt buckle of pearl
 A legacy, yeah, for me and my girl
 My heart, it feels like a pedal steel
 My heart knows what is real
 In this whole crazy life, so big and so small
 There's so much to enjoy, but you can't do it all
 So you start everyday with a choice to decide
 You think of the others who've lived and who've died
 And you pray you'll take as much away
 You'll have lived it as well at the end of the day, yeah
 And of all of the things I remember
 So many times to be missed
 In the end with a wink and a wave
 Well the old man just blew me a kiss
 And maybe if he'd had a son
 Things might have been different somehow
 Maybe I wouldn't have known you
 And I wouldn't feel so fucked up now
 And maybe if I do my best, if I do everything I can do
 I'll consider my life a success if I'm anything like you
 My heart, yeah, it feels like a pedal steel
 And my heart
 And my heart, yeah, it feels like a pedal steel
 And my heart knows what is real