Dear Lucille...

Dear Lucille, have you looked outside today?

Cause it’s rainin', girl, but the sun is shinin' through.

Dear Lucille, wake up, my dear, let’s play.

Get your shoes, I’ll get the door.

It don’t matter what we do. As long as I’m with you

Dear Lucille.

Dear Lucille, let my love be somethin sure.

Somethin' beautiful and pure.

Don’t listen to the mess

Of a world deep in distress.

Screamin' for a resolution, while it’s hid away the cure.

Cause each year goes by faster than the one that came before.

One day your sleepin' in my arms, now you’re beggin' to explore

A world that’ll tell you anything if it just means your attention.

Spread your wings and fly above it, don’t let em get you fenced in.

Put away comparisons. Fight hate and cast out fear.

Hope calls, my love. Take my hand, lend me your ears.

Dear Lucille.

Dear Lucille, I know this life can be so trying,

All around they’re fighting; good people dying

And we’re left to wonder why.

Even daddies don’t have all the answers,

And even I have tears to cry.

But when you wipe yours away, my love, will you look toward the sky?

Dear Lucille.

Cause each year goes by faster than the one that came before.

One day your sleepin' in my arms, now you’re beggin' to explore

When you think the weight will break you, and the peace seems far,

Remember: no pain is forever, and neither is the scar.

You’re cut from Heaven’s cloth, my dear, your light’s meant to shine bright.

This world can’t hold you down, Lucille, look up: it will be alright.

Dear Lucille, Daddy’s don’t know everything, but I can tell you this:

Life’s no random accident, and love is no lost art.

So open up your eyes, Lucille, and soften up your heart.

Laugh easy, forgive easier, and please stay true to you.

And tell the ones you love, that you do…

Cause each year goes by faster than the one that came before.

One day your sleepin' in my arms, now you’re beggin' to explore

A world that’ll tell you anything if it just means your attention.

Spread your wings and fly above it, don’t let em get you fenced in.

Put away comparison, fight hate, and cast out fear.

Hope calls, my love. Take my hand, lend me your ears.

Dear Lucille.

-hb mercy

(if this site had a theme song... and just one of a hundred photos on a hundred self-dressed adventures)