This morning...around 1:00am...it came back around.
My Dad's brother, my Uncle Charles, passed away almost a year ago...April of 2009. Thinking back to his funeral...and how my Grandmother, Aunt and Cousins are now responsible for the task of "moving on"...this song came to me.
With the passing of a loved one...with the loss of a job...or, really, the end of any chapter of something important in your life - there are always people who tell you, on the hardest of days, that there are always "days like these." No one tells you...and, in truth no one knows...how long those days will last.
So this song is for my family...but also for all who've experienced loss...
Gone (Days Like These)
8/23/09, 1/7/10, 1/8/10
For those who grieve...
v1
Whispered voices
In mid embraces
Say
There will be days like these
There will be days like these
Misplaced voices
In quiet places
Say
Just get through, days like these
You’ll get through, days like these
But no one said anything
About it lasting this long
I guess it is just the balance of life
Now that he’s gone
Chorus
Now that he’s gone
In these halls
In these rooms
An ache builds
A make-shift residence
Now that he’s gone
In these hours
In these days
A hurt buries deep,
Spares no expense
Now that he’s gone
v2
Trusted voices
In family faces
Say
Get beyond, the days like these
Leave behind, days like these
Loosened voices
In good graces
Say
You’ll forget, days like these
Once familiar, days like these
And no one will measure
When the healing finally comes along
And Time finds time to stitches up your heart
Now that he’s gone
-Chorus-
Bridge
Some days
You let go
Some days
You just don’t know
You find
You can’t measure a life by a life
As a son,
Daughter, husband, wife
With lost goodbyes
And no reprieves
You find you can stay
Though in your heart
Each day he leaves
