Pull Up a Chair, We're Just Getting Started

Verse

Candle wax on the tablecloth

Butter melting where the bread got tossed

Six mismatched chairs pulled in tight

Somebody's kid still up past nine

The gravy boat keeps making rounds

Laughter spilling, knocking chairs around

I keep refilling glasses just to stay

Just to make this last a little longer than today

Pre-Chorus

So what if the candles start to drown

What if the ice all melts down

Can we keep the clock from turning round

Chorus

Pull up a chair, we're just getting started

Nobody's leaving, nobody's parted

Pour me another, don't let the plates clear

Pull up a chair, we're just getting started here

Verse

Grandma's ring against her wine glass

Uncle Theo telling that same joke, at last

The dog beneath the table, begging low

Porch light humming, amber in the snow

Nobody's checking watches by the door

We keep saying one more story, one more

The kitchen steam still fogging up the glass

Stretching every minute till it's built to last

Pre-Chorus

So what if the candles start to drown

What if the ice all melts down

Can we keep the clock from turning round

Chorus

Pull up a chair, we're just getting started

Nobody's leaving, nobody's parted

Pour me another, don't let the plates clear

Pull up a chair, we're just getting started here

Bridge

And when the years come folding in

I'll taste this table on my skin

The way the light hangs gold and slow

This is the feeling I won't let go

This is the room I'm building from

Chorus

Pull up a chair, we're just getting started

Nobody's leaving, nobody's parted

Pour me another, don't let the plates clear

Pull up a chair, we're just getting started

Just getting started here