One Pint Too Late

Lyrics

[Verse 1] You were there at breakfast Same roof, same hall Me and my wife The girls down the hall Years went by I kept my head down Clocking out late You'd be homebound [Pre-Chorus] And I kept thinkin' We'll have time soon But time kept movin' Past our front room [Chorus] One pint too late But it felt so right One pint too late In the quiet of night We shared one laugh I should've known then One pint too late But I'd do it again [Verse 2] I never took you To a football match Never had those talks That bring it all back No long old stories No pub smoke haze Just two men living In the same old place [Pre-Chorus] Forty years close Yet miles apart A full house of love And a guarded heart [Chorus] One pint too late But it felt so right One pint too late In the quiet of night We shared one laugh I should've known then One pint too late But I'd do it again [Bridge] In your later eighties You said, "Go on then" So we sat with our pints Like old friends And I heard your voice In a brand new way A simple small moment That still stays [Final Chorus] One pint too late But it felt so right One pint too late In the quiet of night You were my dad And I was your son One pint too late Still, it came undone [Outro] Now I raise mine In your name For the years we missed And the love that stayed