We'll Grow Into It

Every year your needles fly One for each of us, fourteen strong Every stitch and every row Counted out the whole year long Taped inside the cupboard door An index card keeps every score Each Thanksgiving out comes the pen You check our sizes all again Then you add a size, just one So there's room before you're done

We'll grow into it Fourteen of us in wool you knit A size too big, and that's the trick We'll grow into it

Christmas Eve, you call us in Fourteen on the stairs again Cuffs hang past our fingertips Smile, and button up those lips One photo, that's the deal Hold it steady, make it real Nobody's allowed to complain Not this year and not again So we grin from top to toe Matching sweaters, row on row

We'll grow into it Fourteen of us in wool you knit A size too big, and that's the trick We'll grow into it

You roll those peanut butter buckeyes Then you hide the good tin high Way up on top of the fridge Where you think it slips our eye That scratchy record starts to spin Same old crackle, same old tune And every year you hum along Right on cue, Grandma, right on cue We all know the words by now Took us years, but we learned how

We'll grow into it Fourteen of us in wool you knit A size too big, and that's the trick We'll grow into it

Grandma June, we're getting tall But the sleeves still swallow our hands Maybe that was the plan all along Room to grow into the kind of heart you have

We'll grow into it Fourteen of us still learning how you knit Your kind of love, a size too big We'll grow into it

Every year your needles fly Merry Christmas, we'll grow into it