Recently it all came back to me 
Somebody promised us roses 
We slid by for awhile on dreams 
But today I see what's only a memory 
Of a decade ago that vanished from sight 
With the speed of a shooting star 
Leaving you, leaving me, where we are... 

Well, you could say we sailed on stormy seas 
Or you could say that we failed 
Like seven out of ten in our neighborhood 
But I prefer remembering the way we were 
When we both thought the other had hung the moon 
'Cause all too soon came the troubled times 
And the broken rhymes so hard to define 'til recently 

Oh, I could have tried for a thousand years 
Through the long and winding night 
Could have cried another million tears 
It would never come out right 

And recently the product of all our years 
Dressed in a navy blue blazer 
Headed for a first class school in the east 
And I'd like to say he's hardly a failure now 
And neither are you on the second time around 
With a wife and a family 
And the roses that lately arrived in the new baby's eyes 
So recently