The music and lyrics have followed us from days of bottomless glasses of wine
and nights on an ancient porch
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Oh, so this is what she means
To the chaos that is wedding planning
no matter how small & simple the day
She means we're bouncing into graceland
To quiet evenings stretched out on the couch
enjoying the view of an expanding baby bump, softly humming the same tune
And I see losing love
Is like a window in your heart
The album has seen us through road trips
harsh and soft words, long embraces and too quick goodbyes
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow
Time passes and it's still bringing us together
thanks to man throwing caution to the wind singing at the top of his lungs
In graceland, in graceland
To no one, then a lovesong, and finally as lullabies
and silly calming mechanisms
I'm going to graceland
And all of a sudden we're all dancing
on a rainy Saturday going about play and chores
For reasons I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to see
Graceland
It's our soundtrack of the day
and all the memories of how we got here flood my eyes as the kitchen dance continues
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Painful and beautiful, it's our happily ever after
Tears start as giggles take over two wee ones and a daddy in the next room
Or maybe there's no obligations now
Maybe I've a reason to believe
We're here. Happiness is ours.
We've made it to our Graceland.
We all will be received
In graceland
** Lines in italics are lyrics from Paul Simon's Graceland, off of the Graceland album**