Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers

Leave the light on at the top of the stairs

Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky

A tree taps on the window pane

That feeling smothers me again

Daddy is it true that we all have to die



At the top of the stairs

Is darkness



I closed my eyes and when i looked

Your name was in the memorial book

And what had become of all the things we planned

I accepted the commiserations

Of all your friends and your relations

But there's some things i still don't understand



You were so tall

How could you fall?



Some photographs of a summer's day

A little boy's lifetime away

Is all i've left of everything we've done

Like a pale moon in a sunny sky

Death gazes down as i pass by

To remind me that i'm but my father's son



I offer up to you

This tribute

I offer up to you

This tank park salute