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The Lucky Nows

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You were the gentlest of giants
You were the stories that you told
Even when you were lying
We knew the truth
How you joined the Navy
And fought that war
And you married her
Like you said before you left you would
It was 1945
On a fireman's pay
Bought a red brick house
And some pale pink paint
And you rolled it out there on the walls
That would witness all our lives
On Syracuse
You were the gentlest of giants
When you held your newborn child
Every day you would try and try and try
And the years flew by
And your daughter grew
And she married him
Like you always knew someday she would
And the granddaughters came soon
We'd blink our lights as we drove away
And you'd stand outside the garage and wave
Then turn inside
When you couldn't see us anymore
You couldn't fight the fire
Of the certainty of time
And Gram had left us
Years before we knew
That you were dying
And you didn't know who I was some days
But you held my hand
And you asked my name
A thousand times
And I told you all I knew
A tire swing on a willow tree
And the stilts you built
And the peonies your sweetie loved
All the time that slipped away
On Syracuse
So the gentlest of giants
Every story that he told
Faded into the silence
So I drove
I watched the sun go down
On that red brick house
With the pale pink paint
You and Gram picked out
Still on the walls
But everything had changed
And I blinked my lights
As I drove away
And I wished like hell
You were there to wave
Just one last time, one last time, one last time
On Syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse
Syracuse

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