• Tonight we all are gathered here
    To mourn the loss of one so dear
    A life cut short before its time
    A new name on the devils rhyme
    Tonight we've come to say farewell
    When we'll meet next, we can't tell
    The hymns are sung, the tears are cried,
    We'll see you on the other side

    An empty place where you once stood
    Your name carved on a cross of wood
    Something has been lost tonight
    An innocence, a smile, a light
    A life now gone, a heartbeat stilled
    An emptiness that can't be filled
    So raise your glasses high, my friends
    We don't know when this story ends

    This life, it passes by so fast
    So short it is, first breath to last
    Standing here beside your grave
    Asking God your soul to save
    Why He took you, we don't know
    Why He chose to lay you low
    Why out of us all, you were lost
    And we remain to bear the cost

    It is not for us to ask Him why
    All here tonight will someday die
    From dust we came, to dust return
    This life is but a brief sojourn
    So say goodbye, then walk away
    There's nothing more that we can say
    Forgive us all for we have sinned
    We are but candles in the wind.