It Ain't What It Ain't

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Two strangers by an accident of chance, A hippie soul, a college-prep romance. They said we'd never make it side by side, But that first night I somehow knew inside — You'd be the one to grow old with, my friend, A love worth choosing over and again. [Chorus] Fifty years of holding tight, "I love you" every single night. It is what it is, and we'd get by, It ain't what it ain't — you and I. My safe haven, my shield, my home, Phil, in your love I'm never alone. [Verse 2] Reruns rolling, the Little Rascals played, When Chubby loved his teacher, sweet Mrs. McGillicuddy. He called her Mooney, so that became our name, Two hearts, one word, forever it stayed. Sunday drives in the Ford, the porch swing at night, Little notes left behind till you came back in sight. [Chorus] Fifty years of holding tight, "I love you" every single night. It is what it is, and we'd get by, It ain't what it ain't — you and I. My safe haven, my shield, my home, Phil, in your love I'm never alone. [Bridge] I miss your hands, the morning kiss so light, The steady heart I heard each still, dark night. The way you said my name, so soft, so true — Oh Phil, I'll always ache for you. [Verse 3] You live on in the children that you raised, The teens you mentored, the craft, the honest days. Sandy still whispers to the quiet air, Your love remains, it lingers everywhere. Not gone, just resting where the stars are strung — Goodnight, my Mooney, my anchor, my one. [Outro] It is what it is, but love won't die, You're here in every whispered lullaby.