“Lily of the Valley” tells the story of a romance between a boy from Tennessee and a girl from Rio who eventually realize that, “Sometimes we fall in love, and we think it’s going to last forever, and then decades later, all we have left are faded pictures.”

Lyrics

You were flying back from Rio I returned from Tennessee

saw you on that Cessna from Charlotte to DC

watched you walk the aisle unashamed and wild

sitting next to me like an unaccompanied child

You were wearing fashion jeans like th teen vogue modls do

left foot converse pink and the right foot blue

I spoke to you in Spanish you replied in Portuguese

living with your parents but you had some time for me

Time to be my lily of the valley, and my bird of paradise

When we wake up in the morning you can be my princess bride

I’ll be your rock of Gibraltar and I’ll be your Stevedore

When the tide rolls in I’ll be waiting on your shore

Ba-ba-ba-ba…

We traveled down to Rio and we walked the extra mile

Your one-piece swimsuit, supermodel style

Back home at your grandmothers you took me upstairs

touched me for the first time and led me in this prayer

E-Forgive us holy spirit for these thoughts in our head

A-the sweat on our palms, face turning red

C-breathing now together, the world disappears

D-voices rise together without any fear

You’re my lily of the valley, and my bird of paradise

When we wake up in the morning you can be my princes bride

I’ll be your rock of Gibraltar, and I’ll be your Stevedore

when the tide rolls in I’ll be waiting on your shore

Y’know, s’times we fall in love & we think it’s gona last forever,

and then decades later, all we have left---are faded pictures-mono

Every year or two you call me just to ask about my life

you tel me bout your daughters they’re the apple of your eye

the only conversation that we’ll ever have again

is when we meet one day in heaven & you say I was your friend

You’re my lily of the valley, and my bird of paradise

When we wake up in the morning you can be my princes bride

I’ll be your rock of Gibraltar and I’ll be your Stevedore

When the tide rolls in, I’ll be waiting on your shore

Ba ba ba ba…

When the tide rolls in, I’ll be waiting on your shore