Your the element of surprise that none of us were prepared for
The dead body behind the curtainthat we couldn't help but stare towards
This afternoon you were an only child and a friend to me
This evening you're not breathing you're just a seed of a memory
Turn the pages back to a faded photograph of
Memories of better days
My memory remembers presently everything from that night
Memories of yesterdays
My senses always sensor any awful images or sights
The years'll pass by but they'll never bring me back to you
I just ask why she had to be the one to discover him
All I ask is a better day
But I didn't get to see through the eyes his poor mother did
To carry the weight of you
A better way
I sing this song to remember the days
When I wasn't afraid
To carry the weight of you
To the friend that I love who has different roots of blood
We cycle in and out of what our lives are capable of
You are the earth that makes the mud that comes from rain that made flood
And throughit all I Thank You for teaching me below and above
I had a friend who was way to young to die
I guess death is just one of those things some people do to earth
