Still I am sure I was only but one
'Cause she looked at me with her eyes
Did I break the thread, or did you break the thread?
Did I shadow her young pencil marks on the wall
As for the promises broken and frayed
One piece of coral shone white
Is everything I can recall of one night
To each other, they know what they mean
I must have left all those feelings inside
Well, it's 19 years late for repairs
Though I had only just met her right then
Of that something that happened between you and me
Or did I even figure at all?
Her mother, I can see, lives within her still
Of a number who darkened that door
By the brass candlestick near your red velvet coat
Well, at this point we could ask who cares
Who'd been darkened so often before
Somewhere, their future is still yet to come
So much more than a long time ago
Was I the name you could never pronounce?
'Cause that year I had no courage to show
All of this happened before she was born
Will you please tell me why I remember these things
I feel that she peeled back my guilty disguise
And the red leaf looks to the hard gray stone
Of your home and your hearth and your family and wife
After all of this time, I don't know
The gray pewter vase held the deep red rose
