My Safe Place Somehow

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Roller rink lights on a teenage night, The music spun round and round. I watched a tall boy playing that game, Best hands that I ever found. Bud is a nick name I gave him when we started dating, And oh, my whole heart was waiting. [Chorus] Kirby, you were my safe place then, You're my safe place even now. Forty-two years and I'd do it all again, You gave me my life somehow. Every son, every laugh, every grandbaby's grin, Kirby, my love, come what may — I'm all in. [Verse 2] County fair on my twentieth day, We married out in the sun. Wedding clothes on the Ferris wheel, Lord, what a way to become one. Your daddy's home where we said our vows, We'll grow old right there somehow. [Chorus] Kirby, you were my safe place then, You're my safe place even now. Forty-two years and I'd do it all again, You gave me my life somehow. Every son, every laugh, every grandbaby's grin, Kirby, my love, come what may — I'm all in. [Bridge] Three sons raised and eight grandsons strong, One little girl to sing along. The '69 Charger, the cranberry fields — This family's the truest thing life yields. [Verse 3] You gather them close, teach them all that you know, That's the man I most admire. Time brings the aches, brings a slower step, But it never dims your fire. I gave you my forever, and I mean it, dear — I'll be there 'til the end, right here. [Chorus] Kirby, you're still my safe place now, Through every season somehow. Forty-two years and I'd do it all again, You gave me the life I'd been dreamin'. Every son, every laugh, every grandbaby's grin, My love, my Bud — I'm all in. [Outro] Tall and steady, hand in mine, Just because — you're forever mine.