Take the Window Seat

We found the honeymoon brochure In the bottom of a drawer Nineteen seventy-six in pencil By the places you'd marked off Then the car gave up that summer And you needed it for work So the train ride turned to "someday" And the years became a blur

You never called it giving up You said you'd had a happy life

Take the window seat Let the world go rolling by There's nothing you need to fix No one waiting for a ride Just your hand inside her hand And some time that's yours to keep Mum and Dad, we've booked the journey Take the window seat

You were up before our school days Finding socks and making tea You'd take the smaller slice of cake And say, "That's plenty for me" We remember being carried Half asleep in from the car Only now we have our children Do we know how tired you were

So don't ask what it cost us You have given us enough

Take the window seat Let the world go rolling by There's nothing you need to fix No one waiting for a ride Just your hand inside her hand And some time that's yours to keep Mum and Dad, we've booked the journey Take the window seat

George, put down the little suitcase Patricia, let us get your coat Fifty years of going together There's still somewhere left to go We don't need another favour We don't need another thing Send a picture from the carriage When the hills turn into sea

Take the window seat Let the world go rolling by Be the two inside that photograph With a whole day on your side Just your hand inside her hand And some time that's yours to keep Mum and Dad, this one's for you Take the window seat

The tickets have your names on There's nothing else you need Take the window seat