Slow down, we've got time left to be lazyAll the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyesWe've got fifty good years left to spend out in the gardenI don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we dieWe were barely eighteen when we crossed collective heartsIt was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eyeAnd then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to danceI knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sightI swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a roseI will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonelyFor even if the sun stops waking up over the fieldsI will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our timeSo just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your sideIt was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen overSo we moved to Arizona to save our only sonAnd now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his motherHe believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyoneAnd even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughterShe has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are grayAnd just like him she never stops, never takes the day for grantedWorks for everything that's handed to her, never once complainsYou think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you awayLike the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago to this dayYou swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our timeBut it's not time, you never quit in all your lifeSo just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your sideYou're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your sideYou come home from work, and you kiss me on the eyeYou curse the dog, you say that I should never feed them what is oursSo we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grownAnd the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire