Goodbye

I felt like screaming at the outcome of the test

Why do these things always have to happen to the best

You were scared, and ashamed, so you kept yourself inside

And though I understand it now, I never said goodbye

You were there

Pushing me not to get discouraged and give up my dreams

To keep on writing and the rest would come

But now you're gone, and I'm left here

Trying to finish up the songs you'll never hear

But there's part of you in every one

Photographs and letters are the only things I've saved

Of a place and time we'll never recreate

Still can't find, the strength to clear

You're old number from my phone

It helps to think that if I called, you might still be at home

Confided secrets that we swore we'd never tell (I'll never tell)

But it's a lot less fun to keep them by myself