Somebody promised us roses
 We slid by for awhile on dreams
 But today I see what's only a memory
 Of a decade ago that vanished from sight
 With the speed of a shooting star
 Leaving you, leaving me, where we are...

 Well, you could say we sailed on stormy seas
 Or you could say that we failed
 Like seven out of ten in our neighborhood
 But I prefer remembering the way we were
 When we both thought the other had hung the moon
 'Cause all too soon came the troubled times
 And the broken rhymes so hard to define 'til recently

 Oh, I could have tried for a thousand years
 Through the long and winding night
 Could have cried another million tears
 It would never come out right

 And recently the product of all our years
 Dressed in a navy blue blazer
 Headed for a first class school in the east
 And I'd like to say he's hardly a failure now
 And neither are you on the second time around
 With a wife and a family
 And the roses that lately arrived in the new baby's eyes
 So recently