About the Children - Tom Paxton

作词：Tom Paxton

The conversation pauses

While the waiter pours our tea

This timely interruption is a great relief to me

I wish he'd stay all day I'd never have to say

About the children

You're looking really lovely

And the dress is really you

The necklace I remember

But the bracelet must be new

But that's another day

I clear my throat and say

About the children

Oh they'll be away at school

They'll have the camps to go to

And they're much too young

To know how hard it is to go through

Ah these were to be the years for us

Making love in the afternoon

No worries anymore about the children

The conversation's civilized

We calmly nod our heads

You're smiling as you always do

But your napkin is in shreds

You'd like to run away oh

Who'd be the first to say

About the children

Oh they'll be away at school

They'll have the camps to go to

And they're much too young to know

How hard it is to go through

Ah these were to be the years for us

Making love in the afternoon

No worries anymore about the children

The conversation's civilized

We calmly nod our heads

You're smiling as you always do

But your napkin is in shreds

You'd like to run away oh

Who'd be the first to say

About the children