The Gambler
Slow down,we've got time left to be lazyAll the kids have bloomedfrom babies into flowers in our eyes.We've got fifty good years leftto spend out in the gardenI don't care to beg your pardon,We should live until we die.
We were barely eighteenwhen we'd crossed collective hearts.It was cold, but it got warmwhen you'd barely crossed my eye.and then you turned, put out your hand,and you asked me to dance.I knew nothing of romance,but it was love at second sight.
I swear when I grow up,I won't just buy you a rose.I will buy the flower shop,and you will never be lonely.Even if the sun stops waking up over the fieldsI will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our time.So just take my hand, you knowthat I will never leave your side.
It was the winter of '86,and all the fields had frozen over.So we moved to Arizona to save our only sonand now he's turning to a man,although he thinks just like his mother,he believes we're all just lovers,he sees hope in everyone.
And even though she moved away,we always get calls from our daughter.She has eyes just like her father'sthey are blue when skies are grey.And just like him, she never stops,Never takes the day for granted,works for everything that's handed to her,Never once complains.
You think that I nearly lost youWhen the doctors tried to take you away.But like the night you took my hand beside the fireThirty years ago to this dayYou swore you'd be here'til we decide that it's our timeWell, it's not time,you've never quit in all your life.So just take my hand,you know that I'll never leave your side.You're the love of my life,you know that I'll never leave your side.
You come home from workand you kiss me on the eyeYou curse the dogs and saythat I should never feed them what is oursSo we move out to the garden,look at everything we've grownand the kids are coming homeI'll set the table, you can make the fire.