Look at You [unplugged]

music & lyrics by Amy Elizabeth Rodriguez recorded by Amy Rodriguez 2009 Odium Fidei Music, BMI Written in honor and memory of Marie McCollough, Amy's grandmother, based on actual events Grandma’s just the same as yesterday Barely even notices me comin in Same ol chair and starin at the Same violets growin in the window sill I tell her my dreams and frustrations How raisin kids and lovin men is sure to turn brown to gray It couldn’t have been this hard when you were Raising your clan back in the good ol days She tossed her head back and she laughed! Look at you You’re finally learnin to dance How to sway, how to bend to your verse You can soar through your days with grace so amazing Just surrender your dreams for the chance Live to love, lose yourself It’s a dance Grandma’s not the same as yesterday She’s out of her chair and she’s out of her mind With shaky knees and half a grin Starts swingin to three quarter time Daughter says “You better calm down now, You’re scarin us all half to death” To hear her mom encouraging The music of Elvis just takes her breath Thinkin back on her childhood she laughs! Look at you You finally let yourself dance Now you sway, now you bend to your verse You have soared through the age with grace so amazing And surrendered our rules for the chance You live and learn, lose the chair It’s a dance [instrumental] Grandma always did love a pink rose Now a pile of them lay on a big shiny box With broken hearts we honor This grand old lady, what a paradox Cause ours aren’t the songs that she’s singin And those aren’t the roses that’s catching her glance A stem in one hand and the other bid towards her He asks her if she would like to dance...Look at you...Look at you Look at you You’re dancing the dance of your life You can sway, you can bend, you can fly And now soar through the heavens with grace so amazing [1st ending] Oh with Him, it’s always been a dance [repeat chorus] [2nd ending] Come remind me when you get the chance To live and love, lose myself Live and learn love’s my wealth And know this life It’s a never-ending dance ©2006 Amy Sewell