A Wedding In Connecticut

There was a pretty girl

From some small suburb of Dallas

And she came up to New York with a dream

In the confusion and the noise

All of her beauty and her poise

Turned gray like snow beside the city street

She met a boy named Steven

They made love in his apartment

In a second story walk up out in Queens

And the thing she hoped to find

Beneath him on that August night

Was the farthest thing from her

As she dressed to leave

So she hides her eyes

Says a slow goodbye

Swears by the morning light she’ll be fine

At a wedding in Connecticut

The mother of the bride

Daydreams about her husband who’s just passed

She stands to give a toast

She says ‘the only thing I know

Is when you find a love that’s worth it, make it last’

So she chokes back to tears

Speaks of all her daughter’s years

Thirty Christmases of memories that she keeps

And the speech was sad and sweet

She kisses guests as they all leave

Then heads up to her hotel room to weep

So she bides her time

And says a slow goodbye

Swears by the morning light she’ll be fine

Yea, she hides her eyes

And though it’s hard some nights

She’d take her own sweet time, she’ll be fine

A welder who spent twenty years

Working in an auto plant

Gets laid off on a Thursday afternoon

And he grips the 45

That rests in the glove box when he drives

Then he puts the gun away

And wonders what to do

So he parks in his driveway

And head against the steel meal

Tries to think of what to tell his wife

And in the kitchen he explains

And swears they’ll be okay

And she says ‘you’re the only thing I need in this life’

So he bides his time

And says a slow goodbye

Swears by the morning light he’ll be fine

Yea, he hides his eyes

And though it’s hard some nights

He’d take her own sweet time, he’ll be fine