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In the song's first verse, a man pulls into the grocery store and observes a boy clinging to his mother's legs. She has mascara-stained tears streaming down her face, resembling a melting ice cream cone, a consequence of years of difficult choices. He buys groceries, returns to his Chevrolet Suburban, and goes home. In the second verse, the narrator dreams of his elderly father. In the dream, the narrator is a ten-year-old boy, holding his father's hand as they talk on the front porch, watching the sunset. The dream reflects the narrator's feelings of being burdened by his father's work. Now that his father is gone, the narrator places a red rose on his grave and speaks to the wind. In the third and final verse, the man is with his wife and children, all that he cherishes. They go upstairs to prepare for bed, but his daughter says she hasn't heard her bedtime story. She raises her head from her pillow and says, "I love you, Dad."
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