The Luckiest

To Paul...

The Luckiest
Ben Folds

I don't get many things right the first time
in fact,
I am told that a lot
now I know all the wrong turns —
the stumbles and falls brought me here

and where was I before the day
that I first saw your lovely face
now I see it everyday and I know that

I am,
I am
I am the luckiest

what if I'd been born fifty years before you
in a house on the street where you lived
maybe I'd be outside
as you passed on your bike,
would I know?
and in a wide sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
and I know that

I am,
I am
I am the luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

next door there's an old man
who lived into his nineties
and one day passed away in his sleep
and his wife, she stayed for a couple of days
and passed away

I'm sorry
I know that's a strange way to tell you
that I know we belong...
that I know that

I am,
I am
I am the luckiest