I Will Be Grateful For This Day
I had girl I knew she grew became a womanNow I think that she teaches at one of the schools downtown,We used to roll the windows downAnd play the music loudSmoking out in her carLost in west Omaha,And we'd get drunk and kissOur bodies twist like shoe laces.And we never came untied;I guess you were just my type.You know that summer never stopped.I still pretend I'm there.Bands in the living room,Neighbors ain't never cared.So when I sat behind the drum set.Your heartbeat's what I tried to play.With kick and snares so careless not in time.So you got ahead of me.And I guess I'm still dragging behind.
I had a friend who changed his nameBut couldn't change himself.Never quite figured outHow to do with what life had dealt.He put a needle in his armTo calm his handsome hell.Who would have imagined it?Could've worked out so well.Now he's a shape that movesLike echoes through my empty room.And there's a voice that speaksLike someone's right behind me.I turned around and foundExactly what you would expect.Clothes I left on my floor.The papers piled on my desk.But where the ink isWhere the cause effect what's meant by itThe story is incomplete.The pictures' left unfinished.So I am writing my own ending.I'll let my pen bleed black or blue.And I will color in the meaning.It will be gold and green and true.And I'll learn to love my new discovered proof.I'll be grateful for this day.I will be grateful for each day to come.