I got a bit of the chorus for this on the way to work the other day and have been hammering on it for a few days while daisy_knotwise puts Katie to bed and Julie is being kind enough to sleep through the banging on the guitar. At one point, I thought I was going to write another full verse and then a bridge, but when I came back to it tonight, I realized that:

The verse I was working on was the bridge

The tempo was too slow

The chords on the verse weren't quite right at the new tempo

And I desperately needed a tune for the bridge

Those things taken care of, I finished the song. :)

This is inspired by -- and otherwise has absolutely nothing else to do with it, save for a similar McGuffin -- a fine Astro City story by Kurt Busiek, "The Nearness of You".

All that said, I suppose I should actually post the lyrics.
( Lyrics inside... )

Tonight, Katie came to daisy_knotwise and announced in her own, not too subtle way that she wanted to be placed on the potty seat. Not too much later, there was a poopie in the toilet. :)

So far, so good.