WHO'S GONNA KNOW - Kathy Mattea  - May 21, 2007

Music intro                                                   REPRISAL - jacktellssydhermotherisdead
                                                              ALLTHETIME - childtouchesmomsphoto
On the top of my desk mid the clutter and dust                SPIRIT - lookingforpicturestogointoframe
Sits an old eight by ten black and white                      ..
It's one of my favorite pictures of us                        ..
I'll carry with me all my life                                ..
I must have been about five or six                            ..
Mom's hair was still brown and dad's was still thick          ..
But to look at it now sometimes I get scared                  MIRAGE - learningfathertookradiation
To think that someday they might not be there                 AFTERSIX - fathershootssomeonetosaveher

Cause who's gonna know but me                                 CIPHER - thanksgivingpageantiwasturkey
who'll help me recall those small memories                    ..
When I'm all that's left of this family of three              TELLING - iloveyoumomfalls; PASSAGE1 - 3machineguns
who's gonna know but me                                       TELLING - fall

Down in the cellar under the steps                            RECKONING - newspaper pictures
sits an old box of junk that I've saved -                     ..
Newspaper clippings letters and cards,                        ..
even some kodachrome tapes.                                   SNOWMAN - videoofmother
Slices of life I can hold in my hand                          DOPPLEGANGER - photoofmother
and show to my kids so they might understand                  MATERNAL - watchingjackholdbabyisabel
In those years to come when they ask me some night            ..
What grandma and grandpa used to be like                      PASSAGES1 - jackputsc4necklaceonirina

Cause who's gonna know but me                                 SALVATION - watchingmothersleep
who'll help me recall those small memories                    ..
When I'm all that's left of this family of three              ..
who's gonna know but me                                       ..

If life were a video I could rewind                           PASSAGES1 - jackirinausevideocaminop
I'd go back and slow down each moment in time                 PASSAGES2 - firsttimesaysmomirinacries
Then I'd disconnect the fast forward button                   ..
So I'd have forever to tell 'em I love 'em                    ..
The older I get I can't get enough of 'em                     PASSAGES1 - sharingfamilystoriesontrain

Cause who's gonna know but me                                 ALLTHETIME - momdies
who'll help me recall those small memories                    ..
When I'm all that's left of this family of three              ALLTHETIME - examiningjackswound
who's gonna know but me                                       ALLTHETIME - leavingjackbehindtodie
who's gonna know but me                                       ..

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