Stories Video (MV)

Every night at 5 o'clock
Dinner on the table
Five kids waiting to say grace
On our best behavior
Then dad would take the first bite
And the stories soon began
Chronicles that taught his kids
The measure of a man

Every moral black and white
There were no shades of grey
Good guys never lost the fight
The bad guys always paid
He made us all believers
In the wisdom of his words
And gave us all the courage
To make it in this world

I wish that I could hear those stories now
I heard them all one hundred times
But they'd comfort me somehow
Like a warm fire in the wintertime
Or an old friend who comes to call
I wish that I could hear those stories now

One by one his children
Went our seperate ways
We'd only hear the stories
At family gatherings
And sometimes when he'd finish
We'd smile and walk away
And laugh about the many times
We'd heard the things he said

I wish that I could hear those stories now
I heard them all one hundred times
But they'd comfort me somehow
Like a warm fire in the wintertime
Or an old friend who comes to call
I wish that I could hear those stories now

Sitting at the table
Telling stories to my son
He rolls his eyes to tell me
That he's heard every one
But If he's anything like me
When he has children of his own
He'll think about his old man
And the stories that he told

I wish that I could hear those stories now
I heard them all one hundred times
But they'd comfort me somehow
Like a warm fire in the wintertime
Or an old friend who comes to call
I wish that I could hear those stories now