Song for a Dead Friend - Kevin Gilbert

Danny my friend

I think you knew me better than I ever knew you

Cause you read every chapter

And I just glossed right over them and pretended I knew

But I believed in you

I loved you for your brilliance

And your way of making everything absurd

And I relied on you

To make me see the foolishness

Of paragraphs that were better as one word

What could I have told you to make you think again

We draw the same conclusions but we choose a different end

When you tear it down it only looks more ragged

And when you build it up it only looks more fake

So why not let it be at least until tomorrow

And then you just might see your sad mistake

Cause life has more to give that what you take

Danny my friend

Forgive me if I break our rule but I think it’s overdue

I really cared about you

I didn’t think that I could love a friend

As much as I loved you

And we were always friends

We were Captain Jim and Billy

The Super-human Crime-avenging Twins

I’m gonna miss you

I truly am alone now

Because there’s no one to congratulate my sins

I wish I could have been for you a more consistent friend

The chapters that I skipped I’m going to have to read again

But when I tear it down it only looks more ragged

And when I build it up it only looks more fake

But I can’t let it be because part of me died with you

And there’s lots of pages missing from my book

You had more to give than what I took