Stained Glass Window Panes

I was sittin’ in the living room

Sun shinin’ like it used to do

Through the stained glass window panes

That you carried through the pouring rain

You liked to stand them up in the corner

Eight-panel frames, rainbows of color

I used to ask you what you needed more

Extra money or a hand in yours

But you’d just say to me you needed time

Before you'd tell me with your hand in mine

Find your time, son, to think things over

‘Cause this old life is a roller coaster

Slow it down

There ain't nothing at the end

of the middle of the end anyhow

Slow it down

Because it's gone before you know it

And you know it will be gone somehow

I often think if I could see you now

That you would find a way to show me how

To figure out what I need more

Extra money or a hand in yours

But you'd never choose for me one or the other

You'll figure it out son, as you get older

Slow it down

There ain't nothing at the end

of the middle of the end anyhow

Slow it down

Because it's gone before you know it and you know it will be gone somehow

Lifetimes come and go

We fall in between

I still miss you so

But I'm figuring out what you did mean

When you did say

Slow it down

There ain't nothing at the end of the middle of the end anyhow

Slow it down

Because it's gone before you know it and you know it will be gone somehow

I was sittin’ in the living room

Sun shinin’ like it used to do