For Real-David Wilcox

[ti:For Real] [ar:David Wilcox] [al:East Asheville Hardware] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]For Real - David Wilcox [00:00.60]Death took the husband of a neighbor of mine [00:03.73] [00:04.40]On a highway with a drunk at the wheel [00:07.35] [00:08.98]She told me keep your clean hands off the laundry he left [00:13.59]And don't tell me you know how I feel [00:17.31] [00:18.49]She had a tape that he'd sent her from a Holiday Inn [00:22.42] [00:23.04]That she never played much in the day [00:25.84] [00:27.41]But when I heard him say I love you through the window at night [00:31.91]I just stayed the hell away [00:33.85] [00:37.00]There's a hole in the middle of the prettiest life [00:40.40] [00:41.24]So the lawyers and the prophets say [00:43.94] [00:45.68]Not your father nor your mother nor your lover's gonna ever make it go away [00:51.77] [00:54.16]Now there's too much darkness in an endless night [00:58.43] [00:59.08]To be afraid of the way we feel [01:02.07] [01:04.01]Let's be kind to each other [01:06.58]Not forever but for real [01:09.56] [01:14.03]My father never put his parachute on [01:16.61] [01:17.37]In the pacific back in World War II [01:20.63] [01:21.67]He said he'd rather go down in familiar flame [01:25.23] [01:26.15]Than get lost in that endless blue [01:29.55] [01:30.52]Well some of that blue got into my eyes [01:33.04] [01:34.98]And we never stopped fighting that war [01:38.41] [01:39.58]Until I first understood about endlessness [01:43.28] [01:44.24]And I loved him like never before [01:47.28] [01:49.39]There's a hole in the middle in the middle of the prettiest life [01:54.03]So the lawyers and the prophets say [01:56.74] [01:58.42]Not your father nor your mother nor your lover's gonna ever make it go away [02:04.17] [02:06.64]Now there's too much darkness in an endless night [02:10.75] [02:11.39]To be ashamed of the way we feel [02:14.22] [02:16.06]Let's be kind to each other [02:18.31] [02:19.38]Not forever but for real [02:22.92] [02:27.36]Lucky my daughter got her mother's nose [02:29.80] [02:30.61]And just a little of her father's eyes [02:33.76] [02:35.43]And we've got just enough love [02:37.23] [02:37.85]That when the longing takes me [02:40.08] [02:40.80]It takes me by surprise [02:43.24] [02:45.33]And I remember that longing from my highway days [02:48.92] [02:49.56]When I never could give it a name [02:52.22] [02:53.96]And it's lucky that I discovered in the nick of time [02:57.97] [02:59.15]That the woman and the child aren't to blame [03:02.43] [03:03.94]For the hole in the middle of a pretty good life [03:08.10] [03:08.68]I only face it 'cause it's here to stay [03:11.85] [03:13.15]Not my father nor my mother nor my daughter nor my lover [03:17.81]Nor the highway made it go away [03:20.74] [03:22.43]But now there's too much darkness in an endless night [03:26.21] [03:26.86]To be afraid of the way I feel [03:29.78] [03:31.96]I'll be kind to my loved ones [03:34.42] [03:35.17]Not forever but for real [03:38.76] [03:43.07]Some say god is a lover some say it's an endless void [03:49.40] [03:51.28]And some say both and some say she's angry [03:55.69] [03:56.52]And some say just annoyed [03:58.83] [04:00.35]But if god felt a hammer in the palm of his hand [04:04.46] [04:05.47]Then god knows the way we feel [04:08.79] [04:10.56]And then love lasts forever [04:13.17] [04:14.28]Forever and for real