A MAN WHO WAS HERE

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Do not think you are forgotten

Though I quickly slip away

I am of a drifting nature

Too uncomfortable too stay

And it has nothing to do with you

There's no reason for that fear

 

Time will show me as a shadow seeking darkness

Just a man who was here

 

All these people I have passed by

Will never know what I have learned

Better that they never find out

See themselves as bridges burned

Yet I love them still and always

And their memories are near

But they hold me as an undesirable leecher

Maybe sometimes shed a tear

 

And even those who really know me

Can only see what I will show

A different side, a different nature

A changeling everywhere I go

For only I can hold my secrets

Absorbed from life and death and fear

 

Time will show me as a shadow seeking darkness

Just a man who was here

 

Visions of mind

Of space and time

Of lies and pain and bedsheet stains

Emotions and how they are kicked to death

Of love and sleeping lover's breath

All the experience a life can give

These I will know, these I must live

 

Do not think you are forgotten

Though I quickly slip away

I am of a drifting nature

Too uncomfortable to stay

For only I can hold my secrets

Absorbed from life and death and fear

 

Time will know me as a shadow finding darkness

Just a man who was here

 

G.S., '85

 

GS: guitars, organ, vocals, drums, 8-string bass

 

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