There Was a Life

There was a life, was there before

But somehow here upon this night it now means more

And all those words she tried to say

I've now forgotten or they've somehow slipped away

And in this darkness is there salvation?

Is there forgiveness for hesitation?

Can someone tell me, can someone say when

The writer of this story will just tell us how it all will end?

And somewhere on this night there's a wave on the ocean

That crashes on shores where no one can see

The tides and the currents decide every motion

From where they are now to where they will be

It cradles them all for they all are its children

If one drop disappears it is instantly missed

And after each wave has joined up with the shoreline

It returns to the sea for that is its one wish

There was a light, was there before

But in the darkness of this night it now means more

To be so close, to be so near

To see the water there within a young child's tear

And in our blindness do we move onward

And cling to the lies that we have harbored?

We could not admit, we were mistaken

But if we don't do it now, dear

GodCould you please come down here and tell me when?

And somewhere on this night there's a wave on the ocean

That crashes on shores where no one can see

The tides and the currents decide every motion

From where they are now to where they will be

It cradles them all for they all are its children

If one drop disappears it is instantly missed

And after each wave has joined up with the shoreline

It returns to the sea for that is its one wish

In the dead of the night, tell me what do you see?

Will you close your eyes, child and just listen to me?

And remember this now, hear these words that

I sayAs your story appears at the end of the day

For my meeting with death though it has been delayed

I have run my hands over the end of his blade

Though the cut wasn't fatal even though it was deep

Well, that wound's never healed and that blood, it still seeps

Are you scared of your life?

Are you scared of your death?

Though that day will arrive, well, it hasn't come yet

For the days turn to months and the months turn to years

As I see them all now through a prism of tears

But don't fear tomorrow and don't fear the night

It's where

God repairs sorrows that enter your life

The remains of your life, the remains of the day

Well, protect every hour, don't give them away

For each evening we sleep and each morning we arise

But you're not the same man, that's the way it's devised

For there's parts of yourself the soul decides to keep

And there's parts of yourself that the soul does release

With some changes so small that they cannot be seen

But death is like sleep with a longer dream

Are you scared of your life?

Are you scared of your death?

Though that day will arrive, well, it hasn't come yet

As for all those mistakes that you've made in your life

Must they stay as they are or can we make them right?

On this night take my hand, keep me near, keep me close

And if I should die first could

I not be your ghost?

But if later in life we should happen to meet

Would you keep me so near you could hear my heartbeat?

There are reasons to live, there are reasons to die

But the end's not the end while you're still alive, alive, alive

While you're still

There was a life, was there before