If She'll Let Me

On my seventh birthday

They were laying in the hammock

I remember them that way

It looked so cinematic

I was watching, thinking

How lucky I was

To see my parents so in love

Sometimes the way it was

Isn't how it stays

And you can give it all you got

But it can still slip away

But even after the divorce

Even after they gave up

After kicking the dead horse

Dragging each other through mud

He said, "I'll be there

To pick her up

If she'll let me"

They met when they were nineteen

A kid and then the chapel

Packed a tiny U-Haul

Drove it all the way to Nashville

They were smiling, driving

Just getting started

They hadn't hit the hard part yet

Sometimes the way it was

Isn't how it stays

And you can give it all you got

But it can still slip away

But even after the divorce

Even after they gave up

After kicking the dead horse

Dragging each other through mud

He said, "I'll be there

To pick her up

If she'll let me"

When it fades away

My father and my mother

No matter what they say

Still kinda love each other