Graeme – Always Late

Lyrics

“I’d do it again if it meant five more years with you”

These were the words he uttered,

While lying beside a bank of machines,

All wired up in a tangle.

To Manchester and back nearly every day

Miles and miles torn up on a motorway

Feeling sad, feeling bad, feeling dread

Receiving calls to say you could be dead

As I picked up the telephone,

The world it carried on

Hurry Drop everything, just get here

The nurses would say,

so I did

Trying to listen to music,

The tears would prick my eyes

Speeding along hoping no hold ups or cars

Sucking on sweets,

Lollipops to keep me awake

No time to think about my toothache

Three months later they said you could go

Then a different journey began

A long, long way from a fairy tale

Still on Oxygen, he did depend

I tried my best not wanting to fail

Against all the odds

He continued to prevail

Coming off Oxygen

And many more years ahead.

Gra to most, grandpa to Molly

They spent many a time

Watching Fireman Sam

Like a happy trio, Luna the dog made three.

Mollie would giggle and be full of glee

The years went by we down sized

He could only walk a few metres then flopping

Struggling to breath, getting distressed

One day he just stopped getting dressed

Life continued, some milestones achieved

Our Silver wedding,

My 70th and Christmas 2025

He was a man beyond generous Sensitive, lazy, untidy and always late

He was my favourite husband and my best mate,

And I loved more than all my sewing machines.

There’ a lot of them so I’ll leave it there,

And let’s all remember him

As the lovely man,

He was