For Real - David Wilcox

Death took the husband of a neighbor of mine

On a highway, with a drunk at the wheel

She told me «Keep your clean hand off the laundry he left

And don’t tell me you know how I feel.

«She had a tape that he had sent her from a Holiday Inn

And she never played it much in the day

But when I heard him say he loved her through the window at night

I just stayed the hell away

There’s a hole in the middle of the prettiest life

So the lawyers and prophets say

Not your father nor your mother

Nor your lover’s gonna ever make it go away

And there’s too much darkeness in an endless night

To be afraid of the way we feel:

Let’s be kind to each other

Not forever, but for real

My father never put his parachute on

In the pacific back in World War ii

He said he’d rather go down in familiar flames

Than get lost in that endless blue

And some of that blue got into my eyes

And we never stopped fighting that war

Until I first understood about endlessness

And I loved him like never before

(to chorus)

It’s just lucky that my daughter got her mother’s nose

And just a little of her father’s eyes

And we’ve got just enough love that when the longing takes me

Well, it takes me by surprise

And I remember that longing from my highway days

Though I never could give it a name

It’s lucky I discovered in the nick of time

That the women and the child aren’t to blame

(second chorus)

For the hole in the middle of a pretty good life

I only face it 'cause it’s here to stay

Not my father nor my mother, nor my daughter, nor my lover

Nor the highway made it go away

And there’s too much darkness in an endless night

To be ashamed of the way I feel:

I’ll be kind to my loved ones, not forever, but for real

(final chorus)

Some say that God is a lover

Some say it’s an endless void

Some say both, and some say She’s angry

And some say He’s just annoyed

But if God felt a hammer in the palm of His hand

Then God knows the way we feel

And love lasts forever, forever and for real

Love last forever

@love

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