I Will Be Grateful For This Day

I had girl, I knew she grew, became a woman

Now I think that she teaches at one of the schools downtown

We used to roll the windows down and play the music loud

Smoking out in her car, lost in west Omaha

And we'd get drunk and kiss, our bodies twist like shoe laces

And we never came untied, I guess you were just my type

You know that summer never stopped, I still pretend I'm there

Bands in the living room, the neighbors ain't never cared

So when I sat behind the drum set

Your heartbeat's what I tried to play

With kick and snares so careless, not in time

So you got ahead of me

And I guess I'm still dragging behind

I had a friend who changed his name but couldn't change himself

Never quite figured out how to do with what life had dealt

He put a needle in his arm to calm his handsome hell

Who would have imagined it? Could've worked out so well

Now he's a shape that moves like echoes through my empty room

And there's a voice that speaks like someone's right behind me

I turned around and found exactly what you would expect

Clothes I left on my floor, the papers piled on my desk

But where the ink is where the cause effects what's meant by it

The story is incomplete, the pictures' left unfinished

So I am writing my own ending

I'll let my pen bleed black or blue

And I will color in the meaning

It will be gold and green and true

And I'll learn to love my new discovered proof

I'll be grateful for this day

I'll be grateful for each day to come