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Look around, look around
at how lucky we are to be alive right now.
Look around, look around.
How long have you known?
A month or so.
Eliza, you should have told me.
I wrote to the general a month ago.
No!
I begged him to send you home.
You should have told me.
I’m not sorry.
You knew you’d fight until the war was won.
War’s not done!
But you deserve a chance to meet your son!
Look around, look around
at how lucky we are to be alive right now.
Will you relish being a poor man’s wife?
Unable to provide for your life?
I relish being your wife.
Look around, look around.
Look at where you are.
Look at where you started.
The fact that you’re alive is a miracle.
Just stay alive, that would be enough.
And if this child
shares a fraction of your smile,
or a fragment of your mind to look out world,
that would be enough.
I don’t pretend to know
the challenges you’re facing,
the words you keep erasing
and creating in your mind.
But I’m not afraid.
I know who I married.
So long as you come home
at the end of the day,
that would be enough.
We don’t need a legacy.
We don’t need money,
if I could grant you a peace of mind,
if you could let me inside your heart.
Oh, let me be a part of the narrative
in the story they will write someday.
Let this moment be the first chapter
where you decided to stay.
And I could be enough,
and we could be enough,
that would be enough.
at how lucky we are to be alive right now.
Look around, look around.
How long have you known?
A month or so.
Eliza, you should have told me.
I wrote to the general a month ago.
No!
I begged him to send you home.
You should have told me.
I’m not sorry.
You knew you’d fight until the war was won.
War’s not done!
But you deserve a chance to meet your son!
Look around, look around
at how lucky we are to be alive right now.
Will you relish being a poor man’s wife?
Unable to provide for your life?
I relish being your wife.
Look around, look around.
Look at where you are.
Look at where you started.
The fact that you’re alive is a miracle.
Just stay alive, that would be enough.
And if this child
shares a fraction of your smile,
or a fragment of your mind to look out world,
that would be enough.
I don’t pretend to know
the challenges you’re facing,
the words you keep erasing
and creating in your mind.
But I’m not afraid.
I know who I married.
So long as you come home
at the end of the day,
that would be enough.
We don’t need a legacy.
We don’t need money,
if I could grant you a peace of mind,
if you could let me inside your heart.
Oh, let me be a part of the narrative
in the story they will write someday.
Let this moment be the first chapter
where you decided to stay.
And I could be enough,
and we could be enough,
that would be enough.