Grown up reading tales
Of knights in shining armor
Climbing aboard their nobles steeds
Sweeping princesses off their feet
Into the sunset over the valleys and hills
And in that reality i began to believe
I fantasized about the existence
All through my teens
Of the man who’d ride a white horse
And carry me out of my dreams
I found you in my twenties
And you treated me like a queen
Somewhere in the middle of
The moments i was growing up
You thought it wasn’t meant to be
And for a long time
I was real messed up
I fought the heartbreak through
The early thirties when you
Were busy figuring out your feels
But i knew somewhere deep down
That it didn’t matter if you were around
Because my heart was yours to keep
Those were real trying times
And by the time forty grew close
I’d accepted that you’d never be mine
And then in rolled heartbreak part two
When i learned that you were to be wed
I cried through the mid-forties
Thinking i’d be alone when i was dead
In the early fifties i tried to pretend
That i was too old for this lovelorn woe
And when you got divorced
I was busy putting on a great show
But never once did i stop hoping
That someday you’d wake up and miss me
And you’d realize that day that all along
My heart had been yours to keep
We began talking once again
When the sixties rolled in
I had forgone hopes of a future together
And started living them instead
And then at the ripe age of seventy
I knew it was my time
You stood by my side telling me
That you’d join me up there
Even though we both knew our souls
Would only give heaven a scare
And closing my eyes one final time
I could only be grateful for the years with you
Where love was the only thing i knew
And even though my heart stopped beating
Not on my deathbed but when you walked away
It’s always been yours to keep
And for eternity it’s meant to stay
