Song For Josh

Album: Positive Songs For Negative People (2015)
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  • So this song's for Josh

    Why didn't you call?
    My phone's always on
    Why didn't you call?
    Before you got gone

    And I can't say for certain what I would have said
    But now I am helplessly silent instead
    There's a hole in my heart and in my head
    Why didn't you call?

    Why didn't you say something, on the last time we met?
    Why didn't you say something? There's always hope left
    And I can't say for certain what I would have done
    But I can't do anything now that you're gone
    And it kills me to think that for a second you felt alone

    Now you can measure the mark of a man on the day that he died
    In the mixture of memory and wreckage that he leaves behind
    And I know you were carrying too much weight on the evening when you slipped away
    But I loved you like a brother, man, and I never really had a chance to say

    So at half past nine each evening, I'll think of my friend
    And at half past nine, I'll remember you were better than your end
    'Cause I too have stood up on that ledge,
    But I know you'd have pulled me back down from the edge
    And I let you down in your darkness, I wasn't there

    So I'll remember you making a hole through the kids in the crowd
    And I remember you lifting me up, each time I fell down
    And I'll glance at the barrier when I'm watching the band
    And I'll expect to see you there stood on the foot stand

    But I guess I will see someone else
    That's when I'll whisper to myself
    Brother I miss you like hell

    Thanks very much
    That's for Josh Burdette
    Let's hear it for Josh, come on Writer/s: FRANK TURNER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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