Therapy song from after attending a childhood friend's funeral. Rest in peace Tommy.
Songs by Andrew Bennett
Enjoy the music. I wrote, performed, and produced all these songs myself. Many of them I'm playing all the instruments and performing all the vocals. It didn't cost me anything to record these so they are free to download and I encourage you to burn them for your all friends.
Lyrics
It’s hard to say when it hit me, but I thought it was too late
It wasn’t the news and it wasn’t the tears in all their eyes
I pulled into the parking lot, but delayed my entrance
I hadn’t seen him in years and all of a sudden he had died
Before I made it to the door smoked a cigarette with the boys
It seemed the natural thing to do, in an unnatural absence
I heard the music as I walked in, the music of our age
And I felt my own eyes well up in flow and lapses
And there he lied, swear it was the best dressed I ever saw him, blue and white linen
And it was all so irreverent, but God knows it was damned appropriate, how he would have wanted it
His little brother looked just exactly like he did, strange how I remember him, the younger version
The tigers left the fields today and came off of the track, waiting for that white Cadillac
You look the same only taller, his mother said to me
And I turned around to meet the unexpected recognition
I found these pictures of the us two, from an age of innocence
There he stood wishing us peace, a decade premonition…and then it hit me
I turned 20 years old, as they lowered him in the ground
A celebration of life and birth on a cloudless April fourth
I couldn’t help but connect the two, it was so ironic
That I would grow a year the same day they buried one of my youth
They buried my youth
Walked out of the chapel, put my sun glasses on
The sky was baby blue, and my eyes were bloody red
And I made the block three more times, debating on going back
But finally made my way home, following a white Cadillac
