Eighteen Fifty-Five

歌詞

He left seaside dasies on her porch Every day for weeks until she showed There he was waiting with horse and carriage Would marriage be further down the road Well he took her hand, he took the reigns without a plan And he found that they were moving toward the sea The smell of the ocean was liquor-less potion It filled them as they fell so carelessly La-de da-de daaaa Woah that's my mom and pa on the wall, smiling And that's the only photo ever taken of them There they old, and though they are grey, That's only a moment in a lifetime of days And nobody brought a camera On their wedding day Nobody captured the range of emotion And colors as the sun set on the bay And they don't have proof of their anxious youth How they threw themselves together in giddy haste They can only remember that day in september The jitters and the daisies and the lace La-de da-de daaaa Woah that's my mom and pa on the wall, smiling And that's the only photo ever taken of them There they old, and though they are grey, That's only a moment in a lifetime of days And in eighteen fifty-five I was born into their lives Eyes as wide and blue as the atlantic I have a picture in my mind, a tiny dress out on the line He called her mama, and she thought it was romantic A storm came upon our silk and I was cryin' inside for milk She ran to me while he pulled down the laundry And for all the rain and tears we would face in family years I got a thousand happy pictures I got a thousand happy pictures with me Oh i got a thousand happy pictures with me Oh that's my mom and pa on the wall, smiling And that's the only photo ever taken of them There they old, and though they are grey, That's only a moment in a lifetime of days That's only a moment in a lifetime of days