One More Prayer For Desireé:

 

Twenty makes you eager, it doesn’t make you wise

When you see sorrow in tomorrow and the world through frightened eyes

 

When you’re two times ten broke and scared, insecure and unprepared to do the thing that you must do and turn your whole world black and blue

 

You can’t opt out and you can’t hide, you drew this ticket, now you ride

 

This little love you give away, you pray that she’ll return someday

but in your heart you fear its true... she’s never coming back to you

 

Son, are you sure this is what you want to do?  Do you need a little time to think it through?

Before you put her down and walk away, is there anything that you’d like to say…

Just one more prayer for Desireé

 

When you look in the mirror and wonder whose eyes are looking back at you

and maybe every now and then whose little girl you might have been and

somewhere close or far away does someone pray for you each day

 

I won’t be there to ease your fears, hear your laughter, dry your tears

But someone that you almost knew, each day says a prayer for you.  What can I do, What can I say…

Just one more prayer for Desireé

 

My heart is gone, It isn’t there…It’s with a little girl somewhere

So buck it up, you did what’s right, tell it to yourself all night

Then get up and seize the day there’s nothing you have left to say...

Save one more prayer for Desireé

 

And when London Bridge is falling down and all the children prance around

That’s when I close my eyes to find you dancing circles in my mind

And as you slowly dance away I reach for you and then I say…

just one more prayer for Desireé

 

There’s Halloween and Christmas-Eve and all the days I can’t retrieve

Easter eggs and silly games,  Santa Clause and reindeer names

Hide and seek, Thanksgiving Day, I’ll miss them all, what can I say…

just one more prayer for Desireé

 

There’s Make-believe and peek-a-boo… all the things I’ll never see you do

The snows they come and seasons change

But memories of you remain

Some days are dark, what can I say...

Just one more prayer for Desireé

 

Some say prayers are never heard but I think you heard every word.

Every prayer you say, everything you do…someday they all come back to you.

 

The years like dreams in time and space put a small girl’s smile on a woman’s face

One that’s never been far away…I’ve seen it in my mind each day…when I say my prayer for Desireé

 

Fifty still makes you eager, but it doesn’t make you wise

the day may be grey, but that’s ok when I look into your eyes