walking her home

looking back, he sees it all, it was her first date the night he came to call, her dad said son, have her home on time, and promise me you'll never leave her side, he took her to a show in town, and he was ten feet off the ground, he was walking her home, and holding her hand, oh the way she smiled it stole the breath right out of him, down that old road, with the stars up above, he remembers where he was the night he fell in love, he was walking her home, ten more years and a waiting room, at half past one, and the doctor said come in and meet your son, his knees went weak, when he saw his wife, she was smiling as she said he's got your eyes, and as she slept he held her tight, his mind went back to that first night, he walked her through the best days of her life, sixty years together and he never left her side, a nursing home, at eighty-five, and the doctor said it could be her last night, and the nurse said oh, should we tell him now, or should he wait until the morning to find out, but when they checked her room that night, he was laying by her side, oh he was walking her home, and holding her hand, oh the way she smiled when he said this is not the end, and just for a while they were eighteen, and she was still more beautiful to him than anything, he was walking her home, he was walking her home, looking back, he sees it all, it was her first date the night he came to call