David Standridge songs
Sometimes you think you won't know what to say to when times are hard.
But friendship has a way of cutting through it all.
Face What You Forgot
But friendship has a way of cutting through it all.
Face What You Forgot
Just a week ago
Heard it from a friend
Picked up the phone
He said you were near the end
Said you’d asked about me
Said you’d wondered how I’d been
Said it’d been a long long time
But you’d like to see me again
So much time had passed
I wondered what I could say
To make up for lost time
To help ease the pain
I walked in the room
All them years they just melted away
We sat close to each other and just let the silence
Say all we needed to say
All those memories we never made
All those melodies we never played
All those places we both never went to
The same faces we both never knew
We hadn’t seen each other in all these years
Now there we were sharin’ our tears
Sometimes you don’t know what you ain’t got
And the end of the road
You gotta face what you forgot
We started to remember
The games we used to play
We laughed at how we talked as kids
About runnin’ away
We talked of books we’d read
The things we’d seen
What we’d done when we were sixteen
Sang along with a stack of old forty-fives
You said man it’s great to be alive
We hadn’t seen each other in all these years
Now there we were laughin’ through our tears
Sometimes you don’t know what you ain’t got
And the end of the road
You gotta face what you forgot
Yesterday
Heard it from a friend
You’d passed away
Reached the end
Said you felt no pain
That you went peacefully
And right up to the very last
You’d been tellin’ everybody ‘bout me
All those memories that we made
All those melodies we sang and played
All those places we’d both been to
The same faces that we both knew
We hadn’t seen each other in all these years
Now there’s one thing I know is clear
Sometimes you don’t know what you ain’t got
And the end of the road
You gotta face what you forgot
© Standridge ’09
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