[00:00.42]09.The Last And
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[00:11.80]So, I'm the first one in again,
[00:19.05]With the quiet and the window growing snow,
[00:30.41]When I hear the furnace rouse itself
[00:37.35]From its slumber, somehow suddenly I know,
[00:44.72]As my eye stops on one curled up in my lesson plan
[00:56.66]That I'm just your little ampersand.
[01:06.78].
[01:11.05]When your voice springs from the intercom
[01:17.55]With announcements, and reminders, and a prayer,
[01:30.05]I remember how you made me feel,
[01:36.77]I was funny, I was thoughtful, I was rare,
[01:46.40]But like the jokes about my figure
[01:50.27]Kids think that I don't understand
[01:58.27]I know I'm just your little ampersand
[02:05.65].
[02:10.77]After Christmas holiday
[02:17.83]You never asked to drive me home again
[02:29.90]Sometimes in the staff room I
[02:37.39]Catch your eye with "why'd it have to end,"
[02:46.52]But I know from how you worry at your wedding band
[02:58.77]That I'm just your little ampersand
[03:06.33].
[03:47.46]At the last conjunction after every other and
[03:59.52]I was just your little ampersand