It's last minute tickets and hotel fare Driving to airport and feeling unprepared There's never a convenient way to go Rehearsing your lines and letting emotions show But we want more Even after 98 years We would take just a bit more time If the words don't come out Though I'm confident you know by now I just want to say . . . You never were the conversating sort Just sitting in your armchair and watching all your sports But your ears were tuned and your wit was sharp Still sticking your jokes in the bull's-eye like a dart And we want more Even after 98 years We would take just a bit more time If the words don't come out Though I'm confident you know by now I just want to say . . . Now we're all aware Standing on the precipice Drag another chair across the kitchen floor Only at the end You see the things you might have missed Thanks for all the things I never thanked you for But we want more Even after 98 years We would take just a bit more time If the words don't come out Though I'm confident you know by now I just want to say . . . And Mother's on the wall beside the saints Still smiling down even as the seasons change You'd sign her name on our Christmas cards I guess you knew that "goodbye" is just too hard