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Recorded by: Milburn & Vigoda
Written by: Milburn/Vigoda
Valerie Vigoda: vocal
Brendan Milburn: vocal, keyboards
Los Angeles, year unspecified. CHARLES, a Jewish man, and HOPE, an Asian-American woman, are on their first date and have just come back to CHARLES's studio apartment. CHARLES is in his mid-20's, and has just moved to the city. HOPE is in her late 20's, and has lived here all her life. The date isn't going very well.
Brendan Milburn: vocal, keyboards
Los Angeles, year unspecified. CHARLES, a Jewish man, and HOPE, an Asian-American woman, are on their first date and have just come back to CHARLES's studio apartment. CHARLES is in his mid-20's, and has just moved to the city. HOPE is in her late 20's, and has lived here all her life. The date isn't going very well.
Lyrics
CHARLES
Eager. I've never been called--no I take that back. That's fair. Eager. I like you. Want some more water? I don't mean to talk so much.
HOPE
You’re very...excited.
CHARLES
I keep telling myself to be mysterious and aloof but when I look at you I just...turn into me. So...
HOPE
That’s...good.
CHARLES
Don't you wish we could skip the in between stuff
All the boring everyday routine stuff
Oh if I could fast forward through it
I say why not get right to it
When we're sitting in our rocking chairs
Watching grandkids playing on the lawn
See, that wasn't very mysterious and aloof of me.
Wouldn't it be nice to see the highlights
Holding hands and kissing in the twilight
Skip over all the paying bills and washing dishes
Wouldn't it be so delicious
To be sitting in our rocking chairs
Watching grandkids playing on the lawn
Their laughter floating through the air
See the sunset fade until it's gone
HOPE
But you can't
Skip ahead
To the end
Of the journey
Being old
In a chair
Looking on
You haven't earned it yet
You know, if that's your thing, being old and sitting on a porch.
CHARLES
Yeah, I don't know if it is.
HOPE
It's just...this wasn't even a date was it? Deanne said you just moved here and didn't know anyone and thought I could--you thought it was a date. No, I guess it was.
CHARLES
It wasn't supposed to be, you're right, I just...forgot that part.
Over dinner everything you said
I didn't really hear a single word
I just sat there nodding my head
Smiling like I got it, like I really heard
But I was playing out our lives in my mind
Flashing forward through every season, every stage
Marriage, kids, a house of some kind
Straight on through it all and right to old age
When we'd be sitting in our rocking chairs
Watching grandkids playing on the lawn.
Eager. I've never been called--no I take that back. That's fair. Eager. I like you. Want some more water? I don't mean to talk so much.
HOPE
You’re very...excited.
CHARLES
I keep telling myself to be mysterious and aloof but when I look at you I just...turn into me. So...
HOPE
That’s...good.
CHARLES
Don't you wish we could skip the in between stuff
All the boring everyday routine stuff
Oh if I could fast forward through it
I say why not get right to it
When we're sitting in our rocking chairs
Watching grandkids playing on the lawn
See, that wasn't very mysterious and aloof of me.
Wouldn't it be nice to see the highlights
Holding hands and kissing in the twilight
Skip over all the paying bills and washing dishes
Wouldn't it be so delicious
To be sitting in our rocking chairs
Watching grandkids playing on the lawn
Their laughter floating through the air
See the sunset fade until it's gone
HOPE
But you can't
Skip ahead
To the end
Of the journey
Being old
In a chair
Looking on
You haven't earned it yet
You know, if that's your thing, being old and sitting on a porch.
CHARLES
Yeah, I don't know if it is.
HOPE
It's just...this wasn't even a date was it? Deanne said you just moved here and didn't know anyone and thought I could--you thought it was a date. No, I guess it was.
CHARLES
It wasn't supposed to be, you're right, I just...forgot that part.
Over dinner everything you said
I didn't really hear a single word
I just sat there nodding my head
Smiling like I got it, like I really heard
But I was playing out our lives in my mind
Flashing forward through every season, every stage
Marriage, kids, a house of some kind
Straight on through it all and right to old age
When we'd be sitting in our rocking chairs
Watching grandkids playing on the lawn.