1953

I found you in the summer heat of 1953
 Wise words from your father said
 "I know that boy's your brother's friend, but I don't think he keeps comin' round for him"
 Again and again and again
 I had to swim away
 Semper fi but I'll be back someday
 I'll take you by the hand and say
 Be mine, be mine, be mine
 And if someday
 You grow tired and your memory fades, it's all right
 I will never leave your side
 And oh when it's time
 You can come find me
 In 1953
 Leave New York and see the countryside
 Little city and a bigger life
 Watch it grow into a thousand eyes
 It's ours, it's ours, it's ours
 Oh it's ours, it's ours, it's ours
 And if someday
 You grow tired and your memory fades, it's all right
 I will never leave your side
 And oh when it's time
 You can come find me
 In 1953
 ("You were my brother's friend")
 ("Years later, my father said, 'You know? I think he's coming to see you'")
 It's written in the gold ring
 ("It could be true")
 ("It is true!")
 Passed down the line
 Hanging in the branches
 ("We landed on the right path, I really feel")
 You see it in their eyes
 Pressed in the concrete
 ("It was a good life, we're all very happy")
 Where we used to reside
 It's larger than life
 And if someday
 You grow tired and your memory fades, it's okay
 And when my heart gives away
 It's all right
 I will never leave your side
 And oh when it's time
 Just come find me
 In 1953