Above My Head

Above My Head When I had just turned sixteen I met a girl through a friend. I think she was fifteen. We spent the summer confiding in each other. I never saw her again. I would sometimes do a search on her name to see if I could find out where she landed. I was spelling her name wrong. I recently found out she died. I felt such a loss. I never told anyone about her and now those memories would only be mine. Shared memories start to fade and die as we get older. I knew a girl She played me her favorite songs I remember it was summer By September she was gone I knew a girl She treated me so kind She came in through the window She told me Everything was fine She told me to kiss her lips She told me to take my time I knew a girl She was bright eyed And I was under siege With her around Oh man I did not bleed The stars were bright above my head Her breath was in my ear The final days of summer Oh man they just disappeared I ran across her obituary On a cloudy day in May It said she died in Florida A thousand miles away And a friend would scatter her ashes On the gulf coast Some day Every breath you take Some day Every toll of the bell Every moment you spend Wading in the wishing well Bothers and sisters Lend me your hand For the great unknown Has been taken again The all knowing Nothing to say