Wave to the Man Next Door

Lyrics

Eleven years of living side by side
And I know him by his truck and his stride
Never swapped a story, never shared a name
But he mows my edge when the grass goes wild again

There's a light on in his kitchen late at night
Same as mine, same yellow, same low light
We lift a hand across the fence at dawn
That's a whole conversation, carried on

So I wave to the man next door
He waves back, and that's what it's for
No big words, no knock on the screen
Just a good kind of quiet in between
Yeah I wave to the man next door
Never needed to say any more
Some folks you know by the porch they keep
And the way they let your mail-box sleep

When the snow came down he cleared my drive
Left no note, just the shovel by the side
I left a pie on his step in May
Neither one of us had a word to say

So I wave to the man next door
He waves back, and that's what it's for
No big words, no knock on the screen
Just a good kind of quiet in between
Yeah I wave to the man next door
Never needed to say any more
Some folks you know by the porch they keep
And the way they let your mail-box sleep

Maybe one day we'll sit and talk
Lean on the fence, take a long slow walk
But if we never do, that's fine
I know he's there, and he knows I'm mine

So I wave to the man next door
He waves back, and that's what it's for
No big words, no knock on the screen
Just a good kind of quiet in between
Yeah I wave to the man next door
Never needed to say any more
Two lights on, one at each end of the lane
And we both know we'll be there again

Wave to the man next door
Wave to the man next door