I don't remember much about you

I was barely seven when Mom came home without you

But I knew right then

Life was changing fast

I don't know why I remember these things

Your pipe tobacco and the pinch of a bee sting

Entwined together in a memory long passed



CHORUS

As the years go by I remember the moments

The sound of your voice

Your particular sent

Sometimes I eulogize

I mythologize

Secnes cut from a day that came and went



Whenever dusk falls in April or May

I feel like I'm back in the yard where I played

And it feels like the day I knew you'd gone away

They never let me say goodbye to you

They thought I was too young and wouldn't know what to do

But I'm telling you right now

That was their mistake

Why did you leave me

Why did you go right then

Did you know somehow that I'd never be what I am

If you were here to guide my hand

To this day

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