This life came so close to never

[telojuro]

"Give me the word and I'll take a left
turn."

"Left turn to where?"
"
Wherever you want. Take the GW Bridge and
go west. Get you stitched up somewhere and keep
going. Find a nice little town -- "

"dad"

"I'm saying if you want. If that's what
you want, I'll do it.
We'll drive and keep driving.
Head out to the middle of nowhere.
Find a nice little town.

Find a bar, and I'll buy us drinks. I
haven't had a drink in nineteen years,
but I'll have one with you. And then I'll
leave

I'll tell you don't ever write me, don't
ever come visit. I'll tell you I believe
in God's Kingdom and I believe I'll be
with you again, and your mother. But not
in this lifetime.

You get a job somewhere, a job that pays
cash, a boss who doesn't ask questions,
and you make a new life, and you never
come back.

You find the right people and you get
yourself papers, a driver's license.

And then you wait. People get caught when
they come home. But you're never coming
home.

And maybe -- and this is dangerous-- but
maybe after a couple years you send word
to Naturelle.

You forget about New York. You can't come
back. You can't call, you can't write.

And maybe one day, years from now, long
after I'm dead and gone, you gather your
whole family together and you tell them
the truth. Who you are and where you came
from.

You tell them the whole thing. And then
you ask them if they know how lucky they
are to be there.

It all came so close to never happening.

This life came so close to never
happening.