Lyric: I Would Have Said
©2007 Wayne Krewski (SOCAN)  All rights reserved.

"I Would Have Said" can be found in the closing credits of the film   "Through Your Eyes"

97 years, it was hard to believe, you were young, so young at heart
I never really felt you wouldn't be there, the basement would ever be dark
I never realy got the feeling it was time to say what I would have said
To thank you for the friendship, the stories and the humour I'll remember in the years ahead

Refrain You caught me by surprise, you never let me say goodbyes when you slipped away so fast
I would have said I wasn't ready, that my heading wasn't steady, wasn't ready for our time to have passed
I would have said that all your stories I would save in repertories to fill the years ahead
I would have said I would remember them and never surrender them, but cherish them instead
I would have left nothing unsaid

You lived your life well and you lived it on your own terms right up to the end
You knew that we would all be wanting you to carry on, your sorrow to transend
I understand why you went with no good-bye but it's hard to let it go
When you had so much to give it's us who has to live without your afterglow

You understand my mourning isn't so much for your passing as it is for my own loss
You lived your life full, you left when you were ready, you were always your own boss
But you left us all wanting just another corresponding with your spirit for your swan song
I cherish our time, I celebrate your life, I only wish I'd said so long