Slower Dear - Bob Schneider

I’ve been makin' money at the grocery store

So I can buy you somethin' nice when you

Get back from the war

You know it’s true

I think about you every day

When I go to bed at night

Well I hope that you’re okay

But the night’s like a train;

Filled up with ghosts

Sing your song while the check out hosts

Dances with the loose carts in the

Parking lot

Give everything I’ve got

If you just kiss my face

Make my black eyes burn

A fool like me will never learn

Speak the words I long to hear

Speak them slow and clear:

I love you

In the meadow, the tiger spots the gray gazelle

And the next thing you know, everything goes to hell

Like my mind when I see you in the chapel light

Try as I may, try as I might

This thing comes and takes over me

Like the night upon the sea

Like thunder crashing down from above

Like love, like love

The wise man knows what a wise man’s worth

In the future giants will walk the earth

But you and I won’t see it, though

We’ll be somewhere in a land below

With lace and feathers and grass so green

Softer than what’s in between our skin

When the sun has left the sky

When I fall into your eyes

Kiss my face

Make my black eyes burn

A fool like me will never learn

Speak the words I long to hear

Speak them slow and clear:

I love you