The whole ride home, I thought about your life
How you were just nineteen when you took a wife
Thought of a young man, landing in France
Braver then me, the first to show up at the dance
And I thought what you told me that night in Berlin
How you may lose, but there's no way you'll win
Leaving your country when you were just ten
You came to Wisconsin, and they let you in
My heart, it feels like a pedal steel
My heart knows what is real
And of all of the books that you told me to read
Here's my little secret, if you'd stay and won't leave
You left me your shirts, a belt buckle of pearl
A legacy, yeah, for me and my girl
My heart, it feels like a pedal steel
My heart knows what is real
In this whole crazy life, so big and so small
There's so much to enjoy, but you can't do it all
So you start everyday with a choice to decide
You think of the others who've lived and who've died
And you pray you'll take as much away
You'll have lived it as well at the end of the day, yeah
And of all of the things I remember
So many times to be missed
In the end with a wink and a wave
Well the old man just blew me a kiss
And maybe if he'd had a son
Things might have been different somehow
Maybe I wouldn't have known you
And I wouldn't feel so fucked up now
And maybe if I do my best, if I do everything I can do
I'll consider my life a success if I'm anything like you
My heart, yeah, it feels like a pedal steel
And my heart
And my heart, yeah, it feels like a pedal steel
And my heart knows what is real