Now We Understand
[Verse 1] You'd pull the blinds up on a Sunday slow, Put Rumours on and let the needle go, Steamed up windows, garden just outside, Tomatoes turning red in the morning light. Twenty-eight years of shelves and stories read, You knew each kid by the books they read, And every August, bags left at the door — Zucchini, love — neighbors needed more. [Chorus] Carol, we see you now, we finally do, Every goodbye that broke you broke us too, All those years of showing up, of staying near, We're starting to understand — sixty years. [Verse 2] You cried at graduations, every flight, Waved from curbs until we left your sight, You'd say "you'll understand when you are grown" — Now here we are, and we have known. You planted more than gardens in this ground, You were the quiet place we always found, Still Stevie's voice on every Sunday morn, Still you — still soft — still holding on. [Chorus] Carol, we see you now, we finally do, Every goodbye that broke you broke us too, All those years of showing up, of staying near, We're starting to understand — sixty years.