• I sit in the empty room
    Full of sorrow
    Full of love
    Listening to people rant
    About how great you were
    Before that big accident
    Ruined you for good

    I still can’t believe
    How you left me behind
    How that truck didn’t stop
    As if they were blind

    I wish I could have been there
    Instead of you
    Maybe then you’d be okay
    And beside me today

    Tears cascade down my cheeks
    As I look at your face
    Your casket lay open
    As if you’re alive
    That you need air to survive

    I look around and see millions of faces
    All peering at you
    Looking deep in the past
    Weeping over your body
    Laying still as can be

    I hold my breath
    Trying to push away the tears
    It’s hopeless of course
    Because inside
    I know you are gone
    And you’ll never be at my side

    We drive down the road
    To the dark cemetery
    Where people weep
    And fall apart
    I cry even more as they talk
    And pray
    And I’m forced to watch you
    Descend into the grave

    I throw a rose on your casket
    As you make your way down
    Knowing I have to leave you
    I have to learn to remember
    And not hold on forever
    I blow a gentle kiss good-bye
    And watch as my love ascends up those stairs
    The stairs to heaven.