Across the Street

Ten years of sunsets on the front porch step

Ten years of secrets that the garden kept

You watered your roses as the light went gray

I walked my retriever down the gravel way

We waved from a distance through the quiet street

Two passing shadows that would never meet

Oh, we looked through the windows

Across the pavement lines

Reading all the chapters

Through the glass and vines

(ooh-ooh) We were keeping time

While the streetlights shone

Then came the summer and the lightning flash

The old oak branches made the shingles crash

I found you standing in the pouring rain

Trying to rescue what the storm had claimed

We shared a hammer,

cleared the fallen wood

And started talking where we always stood

Oh, we looked through the windows Across the pavement lines

Reading all the chapters

Through the glass and vines

(ooh-ooh) We were keeping time

While the streetlights shone

Now I borrow your level,

you borrow my shears We're making up for all those silent years

We share our dinner when the evenings fall Fixing the fences,

breaking down the wall We walked the dog together in the evening

air And found the home we wanted was already there

Oh, we looked through the windows Across the pavement lines

Reading all the chapters

Through the glass and vines

(ooh-ooh, yeah) We were keeping time

While the streetlights shone

Ten years of looking just across the street...

Before we knew that home...

Was only a few steps away