While You Still Got Time

Tuesday, no bad news—call anyway
While you still got time

Call your mama before supper
Ask what made her laugh today
Take your daddy out for coffee
Ask about the scar across his wrist
Kiss your wife out in the driveway
Say you're sorry while she's near
Most goodbyes begin with later
Said too many times a year

Someday isn't on the calendar
Later never names a day
The clock don't take it all at once
It spends your chances every day

Make the call—this is the time
Send the letter while they can hold it
Say I love you tonight
Love them while you still got time

I know this from a hospital chair
Cold coffee by my shoe
Daddy's hand went still before
I got the nerve to ask
That old scar ran past his wristwatch
Pale beneath the hallway light
I had saved one little question
For a better Tuesday night

Now I don't trust someday
Later never names a day
If your name comes to my mind now
I make the call that very day

Make the call—this is the time
Send the letter while they can hold it
Say I love you tonight
Love them while you still got time

If your name lights up my phone
I won't turn the ringer down
If I owe you an apology
You will hear it from me now
I won't save the best for silence
Or lay it by a stone
Love belongs among the living
Say it standing face to face

Make the call—this is the time
Send the letter while they can hold it
Say I love you tonight
Love them while you still got time

Call on a Tuesday
Love them while you still got time