A Wedding in Connecticut-Ron Pope

[00:10.00]…… [00:14.04]There was a pretty girl [00:17.08]From some small suburb of Dallas [00:20.87]And she came up to New York with a dream [00:27.13]In the confusion and the noise [00:30.51]All of her beauty and her poise [00:34.15]Turned grey like snow beside the city street [00:41.06]She met a boy named Steven [00:44.04]They made love in his apartment [00:47.96]In a second story walk up out in Queens [00:54.47]And the things she hoped to find [00:57.67]Beneath him on that August night [01:01.50]Was the farthest thing from her [01:04.23]As she dressed to leave [01:07.91]So she hides her eyes [01:13.41]Says a slow goodbye [01:18.11]Swears by the morning light she'll be fine [01:25.44]At a wedding in Connecticut [01:29.17]The mother of the bride [01:32.44]They dreams about her husband who just past [01:39.11]As stands to give her toast [01:41.93]She says the only thing i know [01:45.67]Is when you find a love thats worth it [01:49.06]Make it last [01:53.05]So she chokes back the tears [01:55.67]And speaks of all her daughters years [01:59.12]Thirty christmas' of memories that she keeps [02:05.99]And the speech was silent sweet [02:09.26]She kisses guests as they all leave [02:13.30]Then heads of to her hotel room to eat [02:19.61]So she bides her time [02:25.17]And says a slow goodbye [02:29.81]Swears by the morning light she'll be fine [02:37.37]Yeah she hides her eyes [02:42.38]Though its hard some nights [02:47.28]She'll take her own sweet time and she'll be fine [03:21.80]A welder who spent twenty years [03:25.33]Working in an auto plant [03:28.30]Gets late off on a thursday afternoon [03:34.85]And he grips the fourty-five [03:38.09]Thats rests in the glove box when he drives [03:41.91]Then puts the gun away and wonders what to do [03:49.14]So he parks in his driveway [03:52.12]And head against the steering wheel [03:55.55]And tries to think what to tell his wife [04:02.43]And in the kitchen he explains [04:05.75]And swears they'll be okay [04:08.89]She says you're the only i need in this life [04:15.69]So he bides his time [04:21.09]And says a slow goodbye [04:25.84]Swears by the morning light he'll be fine [04:32.84]Yeah she hides his eyes [04:38.25]Though its hard some nights [04:43.44]He'll take his own sweet time and he'll be fine