Bribes

When you come home

There will be a parade for you

When you come home

We will line the streets for you

When you come home, the kids will catch the candy that we throw

When you come home

If you come home

We will have a pilot write your name in the sky

And the birds will think you’re quite a legend

If you come home

Would it kill you to visit every once in a while?

If you did i’d make the bed up just how you like it

Christmas cards, impromptu phone calls won’t get me through the year

I want you here, i want you here

If you come home

We will post an ad in the newspaper that’ll say

For 30 cents a word “we hope you stay”

"we hope you stay."

I’ll cook a big meal with a turkey and a coconut crème pie

I'll use the good plates and the good cups, it’s been a while

Since we had company of any kind i’ve been meaning to

I need you, i need you

When you come home, when you come home

I know as well as they do that you’re doing well out there

But all these words in combination are ones that i don’t want to hear

You’ll never know how hard it is to let your baby go

One thing i know, one thing i know

When you come home, when you come home

When you come home you will be loved