A Wedding in Connecticut

A Wedding In Connecticut - Ron Pope

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 grey 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 things 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

They dreams about her husband who just past

As stands to give her toast

She says the only thing i know

Is when you find a love thats worth it

Make it last

So she chokes back the tears

And speaks of all her daughters years

Thirty christmas' of memories that she keeps

And the speech was silent sweet

She kisses guests as they all leave

Then heads of to her hotel room to eat

So she bides her time

And says a slow goodbye

Swears by the morning light she'll be fine

Yeah she hides her eyes

Though its hard some nights

She'll take her own sweet time and she'll be fine

A welder who spent twenty years

Working in an auto plant

Gets late off on a thursday afternoon

And he grips the fourty-five

Thats rests in the glove box when he drives

Then puts the gun away and wonders what to do

So he parks in his driveway

And head against the steering wheel

And tries to think what to tell his wife

And in the kitchen he explains

And swears they'll be okay

She says you're the only i need in this life

So he bides his time

And says a slow goodbye

Swears by the morning light he'll be fine

Yeah she hides his eyes

Though its hard some nights

He'll take his own sweet time and he'll be fine