Every Other Weekend
Every Other Weekend
(Reba)
Every other Friday
It's toys and clothes and backpacks
Is everybody in?
Ok lets go see dad
Same time in the same spot
Corner of the same old parking lot
Half the hugs and kisses
They are always sad
We trade a couple words and looks and kids again
Every Other Weekend
Sonny waited in his limo. A black Toyota Prius pulls up two spots next to it/ by the time the car stops, Sonny has already hopped out of the car in anticipation. Seven year old Kristina is the first one out of the Prius, followed closely by her twin brother Stone. Alexis is the last one out trying to prolong the inevitable. The kids run to greet their father.
(Kenny)
Every Other Weekend
Very few exceptions
I pick up the love we made in both my arms
It's movies on the sofa
Grilled cheese and cut the crust off
"But that's not the way mom makes it daddy' breaks my heart
I miss everything I use to have with her again
Every Other Weekend
Alexis looks down at the ground trying not to see and feel the joy of looking at their children in the arm of the man she still loves.
(Kenny)
But I can't tell her I love her
(Reba)
I can't tell him I love him
(Kenny)
Cause there's too many questions and
(BOTH)
Ears in the car
(Reba)
So I don't tell him I miss him
(Kenny)
I don't tell her I need her
(BOTH)
She's (He's) over me, that's where we are
(Kenny)
So we're as close as we might ever be again
(BOTH)
Every Other Weekend.
Sonny buckles the twins into the limo while they busily try to fill him in on what he's missed. He shakes his head at the disappointment he's feeling. Before he gets into the limo, he looks up at Alexis. She finally moves her eyes to meet his.
"Alexis."
"Sonny."
The door the limo shuts and Alexis gets back into her car.
(Reba)
Every Other Saturday
First thing in the mornin'
I turn the TV on to make the quiet go away
I know why, but I don't know why
We ever let this happen
Fallin' for forever was a big mistake
There's so much not to do, and all day not to do it in
Every Other Weekend
(Kenny)
Every Other Sunday
I empty out my backseat
While my children hug their mother in the parking lot
We don't touch
We don't talk much
Maybe goodbye to each other
Then she drives away with every piece of heart I've got
I reconvince myself we did the right thing
Every Other Weekend
Was it really the right thing? Sonny asked himself everyday he is away from the three people he loves most in his life. Especially days like this when he had to return the kids back to Alexis. His limo pulls up next to her car and the twins slowly make it from his car to the other. Sonny is standing outside the limo looking at Alexis, who is also outside of her car.
(Kenny)
So I can't tell her I love her
(Reba)
I can't tell him I love him
(Kenny)
Cause there's too many questions
(BOTH)
Ears in the car
(Reba)
So I don't tell him I miss him
(Kenny)
I don't tell her I need her
(BOTH)
She's (He's) over me, that's where we are
(Kenny)
SO we're as close as we might ever be again
(BOTH)
Every Other Weekend
(Kenny)
Yeah for fifteen minutes we're a family again
(Reba)
God I wish that he was still with me again
(BOTH)
Every Other Weekend
Sonny and Alexis just stared for a moment longer.
"Sonny."
"Alexis."
Then they got into their respective cars and took off knowing that they'd see each other again every other weekend.