Every Once in a While

We drove across the prairies

past a million stalks of corn

Just you and me, the cat and dog

and a baby yet unborn

Camping out in cheap motels

on a road to better days

In a Volvo covered wagon

when each mile had things to say

Thoughts of you still come and go

I still can see your smile

Some nights your love still visits me

It's true, every once in a while

In Montana we stopped to watch

elk were grazing in their tracks

Meadowlarks flew in the breeze

We could hear the river splash

We were living our own future

when the future had a say

Til the prairies faded from our minds

We all went our separate ways

Days they tumbled into years

Years tumbled into miles

It's true, they stumble back to me

They do, every once in a while

We were children of the meadows

The flowers saw our souls

We turned pebbles into diamonds

We never would grow old

Then we did and had a kid

She grew up and flew way

Our memories could fill the sky

So much was left to say

Was it you who kept the dream

and me who kept the files?

I think about the life we shared

Some nights, every once in a while

Were you jealous of my future?

Was I jealous of your past?

When we looked into the present

it wasn't looking back

We knew many others

they can vouch, it's true

So much love went its way

but much just stayed with you

We heard music in the branches

We saw music in the waves

How the music catches

How music can persuade

We breathed in everything we heard

We were young and felt amazed

The future was a million roads

you could take a million ways