Love Came Back Around

Love Came Back Around

A new baby song · Songbond

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A song written from a true story

The story & lyrics

The story behind this song

The call came at dawn and they were dressed in eight minutes — the same two people who used to need three alarms. At the hospital, the new grandfather held the baby like the instructions had been waiting in his palms for thirty years. The blanket was already finished, started back in July on nothing but a feeling.

They did the worry once, the work, the sleepless years. This time the love comes back around softer — the cookie jar, the yes when the parents say no, the keepers of stories nobody's told yet. There's a photo on the wall of their own firstborn, and the circle has come all the way around. For the grandparents who just got the best job over again, this time with only the joy.

Lyrics

The phone rang at dawn and we were dressed in eight minutes
Thirty years just fell away

You finished that yellow blanket back in July
Said you just had a feeling — well, your feelings don't lie
And I held our boy's daughter like my hands still knew the way
Some things wait in your palms for thirty years

The tree we planted grew a brand new ring
And look how soft the light comes through

First grandchild — would you look at that
All our love came back around
Wearing tiny socks and our son's same stubborn brow
We did the worry, did the work, the sleepless years —
This time we just get the joy
First grandchild, welcome to the family, little one
The best job we ever got was this one

We won't say a word about the car seat — okay, maybe one
We raised the man who built that crib, we know how he turns out
There's a photo on our wall, our own firstborn, nineteen-something
And the circle, sweet and slow, comes all the way around

The tree we planted grew a brand new ring
And look how soft the light comes through

First grandchild — would you look at that
All our love came back around
Wearing tiny socks and our son's same stubborn brow
We did the worry, did the work, the sleepless years —
This time we just get the joy
First grandchild, welcome to the family, little one
The best job we ever got was this one

We'll be the house with the cookie jar, the yes when they say no
The keepers of the stories that your parents don't yet know
Little one, we've been saving them for you

First grandchild — would you look at that
All our love came back around
And it landed even softer second time
We did the worry, did the work — now hand them over here
'Cause this time we just get the joy
First grandchild, welcome to the family, little one
The best name we ever got is yours to give us

Grandma. Grandpa.
Say it again — we're still not over it

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