Love Came Back Around

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