Moonlight Piano Favorites © 2003 David Roth

I am flying home from Frankfurt, I am sitting next to Leslie

In the Air Force stationed overseas for 57 days

Fueling US airplanes that had stopped off in Bulgaria

And now she’s headed home to see her babies

Across the aisle Marines are talking, I turn my head, they’re flashing

Documents of service, words like purple by their names

The movie screen’s a video of Elvis Presley’s daughter

Singing something about Memphis while a car goes up in flames

I’m curious to know what Leslie thinks about the war

But all she talks about is going home, she’s going home

She’s looking forward

I’m looking sideways

Just spent a week in Germany, I hadda change my diet

There were many late night conversations, cigarettes, and beer

Playing music, foreign films, Iraq and what the Germans

Thought about the U.S. going over there

I look around, Leslie’s got some headphones and a CD

Her head is swaying side to side, the cover’s in her lap

“Moonlight Piano Favorites”, she starts to snap her fingers

And I just stop and take a look at that...

Can you picture Leslie as her thumb and fingers snap

If these “Moonlight Piano Favorites” turn a soldier into that

Then I’m sending off some headphones to leaders everywhere

With some “Moonlight Piano Favorites”

And a prayer