The Story Of The Tucks

Once upon a time
Once upon a time
Can I start like that?

Should't start like that
Be patient with me, Winnie
I've never told this before
Once there was a man
A Man with a wife and a family
That's Miles and me.

Jesse, let me tell the story
I don't want to start a war
We tore from the west to settle in the east
Looking for a farm or some land at least
Get to the part where I fall from the tree
No, you've got it all wrong.

Miles, Jesse
Then we found a wood
Yes, we found a wood
Can you guess which wood
Mine?
You're good
Where we found ourselves a clearing
And camped for the night
Just the four of us
Plus the cat and the horse
They play a crucial part.

Yes, Miles of course
We slept by a spring near an old ash tree
And that's where I carved a "T"
Jesse!
In the morning
In the morning.

We had no way of knowing
Without even thinking we drank from the spring
Who knew that spring would change everything?

Except for the horse
Everybody drank
Even the cat
Remember that?
You can lead a horse to water
I think she knows the phrase.

So days went by
Then months
Then years
With an ordinary life
So it appears
The old horse died at 25
But the cat was still alive.

We weren't changing
We weren't changing
We weren't changing
We weren't growing
We weren't growing.

We had no way of knowing
Nobody was thinking
It's because of the spring
Who knew that spring would change everything.

The town began to talk Jesse:
People shied away Winnie look at me
They were so outraged Winnie listen here though
We hadn't aged
Our lives in pious
Our looks perverse I survived a great fall
He survived much worse.

Shut up Jesse
Still we didn't know Yes of course we knew
Didn't know the spring How could we not know though
Was the cause of it
Or where we'd sit on the delicate balance
Between a blessing and a curse The greatest family
In the universe.

Don't confuse the girl
The cat and the horse
The "T" on the tree
The drink that changed us eternally
That's our secret keep it locked up tight.

But I still don't understand
Enough
Alright
We're not aging
We're not growing
And none of us know why
Once upon a time we drank from your spring
And now we'll never die.

And that's the story of the Tucks
The end.