Recently

Recently it all came back to me

Somebody promised us roses

We slid by for awhile on dreams

But today I see

What's only a memory

Of a decade ago that

Vanished from sight

With the speed of

A shooting star

Leaving you

Leaving me

Where we are

Well you could say

We sailed on stormy seas

Or you could say that we failed

Like seven out of ten

In our neighborhood

But I prefer remembering

The way we were

When we both thought

The other had hung the moon

'Cause all too soon

Came the troubled times

And the broken rhymes

So hard to define 'til recently

Oh I could have tried

For a thousand years

Through the long

And winding night

Could have cried

Another million tears

It would never come out right

And recently the

Product of all our years

Dressed in a navy blue blazer

Headed for a first

Class school in the east

And I'd like to say

He's hardly a failure now

And neither are you

On the second time around

With a wife and a family

And the roses that lately

Arrived in the new baby's eyes

So recently