Lyrics to the song by Tim Rushlow

I came across this song on a newly-installed-cable-modem Shoutcast frenzy. Whenever I hear it, it makes me tear up—the man of the song used to be a living, talking human being, but age, or possibly injury, has reduced him to a vegetable, a hollow shell of his former self. Did he do anything to deserve his fate? Doubtful, and yet now the only thing he can do is sit unmoving in his chair, hollow eyes staring forwards, empty...

She shaves his face
She combs his hair
She helps him find
His rocking chair
She cooks his meal
She wipes his mouth
And the window that
He's looking out

Despite his state, his wife still loves him. There's no chance he'll ever recover, ever smile, laugh or speak again, but she still dotes on him. They certainly have no future together - the loss of her husband has destroyed this woman's life. She lives her life one day at a time, with no goals or aspirations other than to care for her husband. Who is worse off?

She reads him books
She speaks his name
Oh everyday is much the same
She sighs that sigh
From deep within
The one that says
She misses him

Chorus

She misses his gentle touch
And the way he used to make her laugh
She misses the man he was
In all of those old photographs
So strong, so kind, so sweet, so smart
The man who stole her very heart...
She misses him

This is the saddest point in the whole song. All she has to remember him by are photographs, photographs that probably won't mean much to her grandchildren. They will never know how him as a person, only an unmoving vegetable in a rocking chair. He doesn't even have a name to them.

His children come on Saturday
There at his feet his grandkids play
It's sad they don't know him at all
He's just the one they call grandpa

They take out his trash
They mow his lawn
Things he can't do
Since he's been gone
She's grateful that
They're pitching in
And like everyone else
She misses him

Repeat chorus

Bridge

And Yes, they're still together
After all these years
But sometimes you can almost feel
The sadness in her tears

She dedicated her life to this man, and all she has now are memories...

Repeat chorus