Even Memories are Gone

I see photographs of smiling faces
And wonder where they’ve gone
The color of your eyes, I can’t recall them
Were they blue, green or brown?
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone

Recorded voices and it does my heart sad
Just to hear the sound
Sometimes at night I can hear your whispers
Just outside my door
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone

There was a time when I could take my shoes off
And wonder on back home
But it’s harder now to find my way there
The path’s so overgrown
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone

Lay back in the water
Let the clouds carry you away
See the mountains as they slip down to the sea
And fade away, away

Emotions rise and fall just for their own sake
And carry me along
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like
If you were still around
I close my eyes to see you
But even memories are gone


*I wrote this for my mom who passed in 1978.

Time to Spend

There is a weeping willow tree
Down by the river shore
Under it you might find me
On my knees there looking for
A trinket of mine that fell away
And rolled to who know where
I search around it relentlessly
Hoping somehow it’s still there

So won’t you keep me company
Through the waning of the moon
And I’ll try not to burden you
With such a melancholy tune
But it has been a long hard day
I’m too tired to pretend
That I have anything left to say
But I do have time to spend

I’ve been stepping carefully
Trying not to bruise the ground
I’ve been told I waste my time
Searching for that perfect sound
And you say love just isn’t worth
The pain of the goodbye
But I still want to live my life
Even though I’m sure I’ll die

So won’t you keep me company
Through the waning of the moon
And I’ll try not to burden you
With such a melancholy tune
But it has been a long hard day
I’m too tired to pretend
That I have anything left to say
But I do have time to spend

Sometimes I wonder where you are
Sometimes I couldn’t care
Sometimes I have to tell my self
That you were never really there
It’s just be some kind of game I guess
My mind loves playing tricks
You know I suffer day and night
While my mind it gets its kicks

So won’t you keep me company
Through the waning of the moon
And I’ll try not to burden you
With such a melancholy tune
But it has been a long hard day
I’m too tired to pretend
That I have anything to say
But I do have time to spend