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