Jennifer Kimball (this Is) My New Vow Lyrics

(this Is) My New Vow Lyrics

Walk back down the aisle -

No cameras, no flowers this time. 

You
will find your way back home, no one at your side.

Only absense will be
your lover, regret your bride.





And this is my new vow

not to have you or hold you

no more my arms enfold you

from this
day on.





And with all that I am

and all that I have

I still honor you.





So go, take your records,

I
want the plate from Mexico.

Go, and don't look back

to swimming in
the azure blue.





We have lived and partly lived, not to let
this happen

You took my hand, I gave it to you, I take it back. 

Ten years could be a lifetime, now we count the ways 

to leave the
burning sameness of these days. 





And just the other day

I saw it there

gleaming in the attic twilight -





my
wedding dress,

still off-white, still my mother's,

as she must have
seen it

when she left Dad.





So go, damn this whole
thing,

I don't know how we got here.

Go, and don't look back,
dear,

the way I always did.





And I still do.