Sins Of The Father

I know how this ends. How it ends for everyone. It's just you and me, babe, counting down the days, huh?

We're too heavy for our own good. When others laugh, we remember how the road unwinds. We know that stop's sign is on the horizon. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But, someday. Someday. Someday, sooner rather than later. Remember those days when 'later' seemed eternally out there, somewhere, far far away? Almost, non-existent. Remember that, babe?

What we've been through together, you and I, I wouldn't change any of it. Not the good - I wouldn't make it better. It was perfect. And the bad, neither. I'd keep it all the same as it is right now. Because by changing one moment, we change the whole of it. Why would we do something so stupid? 

This nostalgia...is bitter-sweet. You're sweet. You're humble. You've been through so many highs and so many lows. I can't keep from welling up as I write this. These dumb young people, these days, who can't commit because they think they're more evolved than the rest of us by spreading their love...It's ignorance. It's greed. It's fear. It's lame. It's base. They'll find out the hard way when they realize how much time they wasted chasing their loins, convincing themselves it was love. What a bunch of fools. Just call it cheating already. You want to cheat. You want to have your cake and eat it, too. So go have your cake. But don't call that love. It isn't love. And no, you are not evolved.

When your partner's in pain and there's nothing you can do to relieve it, and you stick by that person, for better of for worse, that's love, you fool. You're going to get old and ugly, too. Your skin is going to sag and all those places you used to smell nice, you're going to have to pay extra attention to. But when you're with someone you love, who loves you, too, they love you with their whole heart. You are their universe and their universe is you. But the way you have things set up, oh man, the price you're going to pay for your ignorance and for your arrogance, will be huge. It may not be you who suffers. The sins of the father do not go unnoticed...