I Do Songtext
von Andrea Gibson

Bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity
Dang a dang dang a ding a dong ding
I do, I do, I do
Dip da dip da dip do, I do, I do
Dip da dip da dip bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity
Dang a dang dang a ding a dong ding
I do

But the fuckers say we can′t

'Cause you′re a girl and I'm a girl or at least something close
So the most we can hope for is an uncivil union in Vermont
And I want church bells, I want rosary beads
I want Jesus on his knees
I wanna walk down the aisle and then the patriarchy smile
That's not true

But I do wanna spend my life with you

And I wanna know fifty years from now
When you′re in a hospital room getting ready to die

When visiting hours are for family members only
I wanna know they′ll let me in to say goodbye


'Cause I′ve been fifty years memorizing the way
The lines beneath your eyes form rivers when you cry
And I've held my hand like an ocean at your cheek
Saying, "Baby, flow to me"

′Cause fifty years I've watched you grow with me

Fifty years of you never letting go of me
Through nightmares and dreams and everything in between
From the day I said, "Buy me a ring
Buy me a ring that will turn my finger green
So I can imagine our love is a forest
I wanna get lost in you"
And I swear I grew like a wildflower
Every hour of the fifty years I was with you
And that′s not to say we didn't have bad days

Like the day you said, "That checkout clerk was so sweet"
And I said, "I'd like to eat that checkout clerk"
And you said, "Honey, that′s not funny"
And I said, "Baby, maybe you could take
A fucking joke every now and then"
So I slept on the couch that night

But when morning came you were laughing


Yeah, there were times we were both half in and half out the door
But I never needed more than the stars on your grin to lead me home
For fifty years you were my favorite poem

And I′d read you every night

Knowing I might never understand every word
But that was okay
'Cause the lines of you were the closest thing to holy I′d ever heard

You'd say, "This kind of love has to be a verb
We are paint on a slick canvas
It′s gonna take a whole lot to stick
But if we do we'll be a masterpiece"
And we were
From the beginning living in towns that frowned at our hand holding
Folding their stares like hate notes into our pockets
So we could pretend they weren′t there
You said, "Fear is only a verb if you let it be

Don't you dare let go of my hand"

And that was my favorite line

That and the time when we saw two boys kissing on the street in Kansas
And we both broke down crying 'cause it was Kansas
And you said, "What are the chances of
Seeing anything but corn in Kansas?"

We were born again that day
I cut your cord and you cut mine
And the chords of time played like a concerto of hope
Like we could feel the rope unwind
The noose of hate loosening
Loosening from years of "People like you aren′t welcome here
People like you cannot work here
People like you cannot adopt"

So we had lots of cats and dogs
And once even a couple of monkeys
You taught to sing, "Hey, hey, we′re the Monkees"

You were crazy like that

And I was so crazy about you
On nights you couldn't sleep
I′d lay awake for hours counting sheep for you
And you would rewrite the rhythm of my heartbeat
With the way you held me in the morning
Resting your head on my chest
I swear my breath turned silver the day your hair did

Like I swore marigolds grew in the folds of my eyelids
The first time I saw you
And they bloomed the first time I watched you dance
To the tune of our kitchen kettle in our living room
In a world that could have left us hard as metal
We were soft as nostalgia together
For fifty years we feathered wings too wide to be prey
And we flew through days strong
And days as fragile as sandcastles at high tide

You would fold your love into an origami firefly
And throw it through my passageways
'Til all my hidden chambers were lit with lanterns
Now every trapdoor of every pore of my heart is open
Because of you, because of us
So I do, I do, I do

Wanna be in that room with you

When visiting hours are for family members only
I wanna know they′ll let me in

I wanna know they'll let you hold me while I sing

Bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity
Dang a dang dang a ding a dong ding
I′m so in love with you
Baby, I'm so in love with you
Dip da dip da dip bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity bobbity
Dang a dang dang a ding a dong ding
Goodbye