| "You And My Best Friend" | |
| I knew you when you wore your hair in pigtails, I watched you on your first day at the school, And when you started dating with my best friend, You'd come and join us swimming at the pool. We used to hang around at the soda fountain, Years later we'd go drinking at a bar, You were always sitting with my best friend, And so I worshipped you from afar. I watched you as you walked down the aisle together, I stood there right beside him, his best man. I tried so hard to hold back my feelings, As I placed your wedding ring in his hand. You made me the godfather to your children, I watched them like I watched you years before, We always played the game of happy families, Till your husband, my best friend, went off to war. You handed me the letter from the air force, Your teardrops on the paper hadn't dried, Shot down by a missile over Basra, I held you in my arms and we both cried. Side by side we walked down the aisle together, Nobody in the chapel made a sound, We tried so hard to hold back our feelings, As we watched the casket lowered in the ground. Every week I'd come round here and visit, Sometimes take the kids out to a game, Keeping to myself my thoughts about you, If I'd told you, our lives wouldn't be the same. One grey day my momma said "Son, listen, "You've got to do what's right there in your heart. "I know he was your friend and you loved him, "Don't let that keep the two of you apart." Side by side we walked down the aisle together, I'm sure that he was walking with us too, Smiling on the two of us from heaven, As you looked into my eyes and said "I do". |
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