Lyrics

Where we all go summer 1971? From Chicago to Toronto for a family reunion My dad at the wheel, driving five hours at a clip Swimming in the afternoons, another motel 6 First stop in town was my grandmother's bakery She stood there and welcomed us, the American celebrities I saw her photo on the wall, I thought she was the famous one Then my uncles and her gave us all the cookies we want Here we are together, our father's gone Here we are together, 40 years on Here we are together, just daughters and sons This is our reunion, this is our reunion Later in an old fancy restaurant she wore the crown Surrounded by all her kin looking proudly around I watched my dad with his brothers with their gray-green eyes And their handsome faces with dark shadows behind All the things my dad loved, his brothers gave to him Mathematics and opera, Gilbert and Sullivan I used to believe he was the lucky one, the one who got away The mysterious prodigal son at that family reunion, 1971 And here we are together, our father's gone Here we are together, 40 years on Here we are together, just daughters and sons This is our reunion, this is our reunion This is our reunion, this is our reunion