Song Description

Family loss then a miracle

Lyrics

Verse 1
I stand before you now
Yellow roses in my hand
The kind you loved so much in life
As my wife, I'll set them here beside this cold, unlettered stone
Our house now is up for sale and the bank's about to repossess
They can take it all, but the memories of us
I feel you in the breeze and every quiet prayer
The pieces of our days are still hanging in the air

Chorus
This family portrait is all I have left
The life we made still beats in my chest
This family portrait, I hold it dearly in my arms
Where you'll always be right here next to me

Verse 2
As I walk through the front door for the very last time
That frame hung on the wall
Like it knew what I would see one day, oh God Tommy was so small
Now it's just a silence I can't carry anymore
I trace the edges slow, like I could hold you near
The rooms still know my name, even with nobody here

Chorus
This family portrait is all I have left
The life we made still beats in my chest
This family portrait, I hold it dearly in my arms
Where you'll always be right here next to me

Bridge
Now I'm riddled in doubt, just want to check out
Won't you show me a sign? Show me a sign

Verse 3
With lightning speed, nothing left to lose, started racing down that winding road
Then my car just stalled and slowly stopped on that very spot
I gazed in awe at the shoulder's edge, there grew a yellow rose

Outro
Now I do believe, when my time has come by the pearly gates
You and Tommy will wait with great big smiles great big smiles