What a Waste

WHAT A WASTE

You pulled the trigger.
You killed You.
Part of those who loved you too.                   

You're slipin, slidin, more distant now.
Time bleeds you away.
Year after year, after day after day.

It's summer,  we're kids at Hangin Rock, breakin rules, swimmin under the dock.
Maybe we'd get caught, maybe not.
They should be good memories, but your gone, so they're not.

These bittersweet memories, more bitter than sweet,
are milestones of our lives, yours though, ceased, incomplete.
Only in these mostly bitter memories do we meet.
I' ll always be missin the sweet.

Twenty years, I still think about you though.
I forgot  marriage, divorce you know.
No longer a Musician, cancer dealt that blow.
Even buried my daughter, bad doctor, he was a no-show.

But,my childhood, my cousin, you were like my brother;
How do I let You go?
Aunt Nancy said it.
It was evenin after we buried you.

I was alone at your grave.
She came up behind me; Her, I didn't see.
Not before or since, from behind, she wrapped her arms around me.

"What a waste" she cried out, "What a waste."
One futile glance we shared our red eyes,
muting  tear-filled thoughts and brimmin emotions, that voices, just can't disguise.

Yeah Bro, Lil  Lew,
Your life  through, no more livin to do.
What a waste... what a waste.

Oh, what Family and friends would have done to save you.
Yeah Bro, what family and friends would have done to save you.
What a Waste.  What a Waste...