Birthday Wishes.
May 7, 2009
today is my birthday, and all that I want is to dig through this big box of pictures in my kitchen til the daylight’s gone.
This one here’s my mama, with the long brown hair. I’m forty years older today than she was in that picture there.
But if life stay the way it was, and lovers never fell out of love, if memories didn’t last so long, if nobody did nobody wrong
If we knew what we had before it was gone, if every road led back home, this would be the very last country song.
These are all my babies. Lord knows how we survived. The first one was hard and the last was unplanned, what a big surprise.
That’s him with his daddy’s eyes.
I loved the man in this one. It’s faded but I don’t care. There are nights when I wake up and know he’s beside me I swear. Sometimes I still feel him there.
But if life stayed the way it was, if lovers never fell out of love, if memories didn’t last so long, if nobody did nobody wrong, if we knew what we had before it was gone, if every road led back home, this would be, the very last country song.
~Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush.
