It took me a long while, but I finally found some words in memory of a sweet friend we lost last year.
FAVORITE SONGS
Here I sit
Under stars
Where a copse of pines used to be
That echoed my guitar
Now they’re gone
So I play
Sending notes out to the sky
Like some hopeless serenade
From a distance
I saw the storm
Came up quick and violent
And flooded in a summer warm
We learned
By break of day
All that rain from the heavens
Had washed her pain and soul away
(chorus)
Rivers flow, leaves will blow
Resign to realize
Time will always steal the show
Just love
The time you’re in
‘Cause echoes sometimes don’t come back
And favorite songs will always end
I gotta say
It’s kinda strange
I only knew her for a minute
Then had a sort of fadeaway
But still
It makes me smile
Like the first time that you heard a song
And felt you’d known it all the while
I doubt this drink
Will be my last
I like the way the world looks
Blurred and curved through my glass
It's just my way
To recall
How I found somewhere in sorrow
Faith and sage direction from it all
(chorus)