If She’ll Let Me Lyrics by Lennon Stella
On my seventh birthday
They were laying in the hammock
I remember them that way
It looked so cinematic
I was watching, thinking
How lucky I was
To see my parents so in love
Sometimes the way it was
Isn’t how it stays
And you can give it all you got
But it can still slip away
But even after the divorce
Even after they gave up
After kicking the dead horse
Dragging each other through mud
He said, “I’ll be there
To pick her up
If she’ll let me”
They met when they were nineteen
A kid and then the chapel
Packed a tiny U-Haul
Drove it all the way to Nashville
They were smiling, driving
Just getting started
They hadn’t hit the hard part yet
Sometimes the way it was
Isn’t how it stays
And you can give it all you got
But it can still slip away
But even after the divorce
Even after they gave up
After kicking the dead horse
Dragging each other through mud
He said, “I’ll be there
To pick her up
If she’ll let me”
When it fades away
My father and my mother
No matter what they say
Still kinda love each other
