[ You Lift Me Up, When I Feel Down ]
[ You Are Always Right There ]
[ When I Turn Around ]

[ In My Younger Years I Always Had This Dream In My Head ]
[ That Some Day When I Found Mrs. Right ]
[ We Would Wed ]
[ But I Dated A Whole Lot Of Mrs. Wrongs Instead! ]

[ It Wasn’t Until 31 Years Had Gone By In My Life ]
[ That I Finally Met The Beautiful Woman ]
[ That Would Become My Wife ]

[ Who Knew I Would Meet Mrs. Right In An Employee
Lunch Room? ]
[ But I Was A Shallow Man Back Then ]
[ I Didn’t Hear Bottle Rockets Go Boom ]

[ We Met Again & We Found That She Was Moving Into
The Same Apartment Complex That I Lived In ]
[ & That Is Where The Friendship Would Begin ]

[ We Would Meet & Talk For Hours On End ]
[ I Truly Liked Talking With My Friend ]

[ But I Was Sure ]
[ That I Really Wanted To Be A Good Friend To Her ]

[ But Then Came The Day When The Romance Would Start ]
[ After That Day I Felt In My Heart ]
[ That I Never, Ever Wanted Us To Be Apart ]

[ Then I Worried About All Of The Ideas & Words Coming Out
Of My Mouth ]
[ Would Ruin A Really Good Friendship ]
[ & Make Her Pack Up & Head South ]

[ I Wanted To Look In Her Beautiful Eyes ]
[ & Let Her Know That I Was Not One Of Those Guys ]
[ & Fill Her Head With Lies ]

[ Instead Of Running Away, She Walked Towards Me ]
[ I Knew Right Then Who I Wanted Her To Eventually Be ]

[ But I Had To Fly To Alaska For A Friends Wedding To Have
Her Ring Fall Into My Hands ]
[ It Was The Bride To Be First Wedding Set ]
[ Without Any Specific Payback Demands ]

[ I Did Make It Clear ]
[ That It Would Definitly Take Me A Couple Of Years ]

[ So What Was My Wish? ]
[ When Did I Want To Do This ]

[ So The Date Was Set ]
[ In Mind ]
[ So I Had A Secret ]
[ From Her ]
[ But This Was The Best Kind ]

[ I Wanted To Find A Way ]
[ To Ask Her To Marry Me On Christmas Day ]

[ So I Did ]
[ & This Is How We Now Live ]

~ Ka hopena ~

||  Mahalo iā ‘oe  ||
||  A hui hou mākou  ||
|| Aloha ||   ‎ 
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|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||