We Shared the Same Road
https://soundcloud.com/or...e-shared-the-same-road I read an article a while ago by a woman whose husband had died after an illness. They'd been married for 60 years or so and they realized at the end that they didn't know each other very well, being too wrapped up in their own interests. So they tried to make up for it in the last few weeks of his life and they actually did get closer to each other, much closer than they'd ever been before.
Anyway, I wrote this song about that couple and maybe for some other people I know.
(I just noticed a couple of rough spots in the song, but I'm letting them pass for now.)
Well here we are Near the end
Our journey's nearly done
I' ll never see you again
I'll be so alone
Just one minute more That's all I ask
Before we say good bye
We've got to make up for those years
Of leading separate lives
You went your way, I went mine
A disconnected pair
We didn't know each other well
But you were always there
My life was your life and that story's been told
My old friend we have shared the same road
It was always you, and always me
So difficult was "We"
Living together for so long
Independently
As you fade away, away from me
I feel it in my heart
You were a vital part of me
I'm being torn apart
I looked at your face you gazed at me
You smiled and took my hand
You said... the road will never end,
Good Bye my old friend