Another Day

My brother called me just the other day

Told me my Dad had passed away

Living life is the price you have to pay

Why couldn’t you have stayed just another day?

Living life all alone

Not too many calls on the telephone

You can always go back but you can’t find home

Solitude has become overblown,

More than 12 years and you walked away

My life fell into disarray

Would it have made a difference if you’d stayed?

Maybe just for another day,

In a world that’s as cold as stone

Some of us have become accident prone

This aint the way that you live in the zone

Maybe it wasn’t you just a replicate clone,

We go through life thinking we’re so good

Did we really do all that we could?

That was the perspective from where we stood

Some people have souls like rotted wood,

You could have stayed just one more day

Instead you went astray

Rationalize it in your own way

Maybe someday you’ll be someone else’s prey,

Those you’ve loved who have gone away

Would it have helped had they stayed another day?

With all the excuses that you have to say

Better get on your knees and pray.