David Wilcox - For Real Lyrics
Death took the husband of a neighbor of mineOn a highway with a drunk at the wheelShe told me keep your clean hands off the laundry he leftAnd don't tell me you know how I feelShe had a tape that he'd sent her from a Holiday InnThat she never played much in the dayBut when I heard him say I love you through the window at nightI just stayed the hell awayChorus:There's a hole in the middle in the middle of the prettiest lifeSo the lawyers and the prophets sayNot your father nor your mother nor your lover's ever gonna make it go awayNow there's too much darkness in an endless nightTo be afraid of the way we feelLet's be kind to each otherNot forever but for realMy father never put his parachute onIn the pacific back in World War IIHe said he'd rather go down in familiar flameThan get lost in that endless blueWell some of that blue got into my eyesAnd we never stopped fighting that warUntil I first understood about endlessnessAnd I loved him like never beforeThere's a hole in the middle in the middle of the prettiest lifeSo the lawyers and the prophets sayNot your father nor your mother nor your lover's ever gonna make it go awayNow there's too much darkness in an endless nightTo be ashamed of the way we feelLet's be kind to each otherNot forever but for realLucky my daughter got her mother's noseAnd just a little of her father's eyesAnd we've got just enough loveThat when the longing takes meIt takes me by surpriseAnd I remember that longing from my highway daysWhen I never could give it a nameAnd it's lucky that I discovered in the nick of timeThat the woman and the child aren't to blameFor the hole in the middle of a pretty good lifeI only face it 'cause it's here to stayNot my father nor my mother nor my daughter nor my loverNor the highway made it go awayBut now there's too much darkness in an endless nightto be afraid of the way I feelI'll be kind to my loved onesNot forever but for realSome say god is a lover, some say it's an endless voidAnd some say both, and some say she's angryAnd some say just annoyedBut if god felt a hammer in the palm of his handThen god knows the way we feelAnd then love lasts foreverForever and for real
