I don't remember much about you   I was barely seven when Mom came home without you   But I knew right then   Life was changing fast   I don't know why I remember these things   Your pipe tobacco and the pinch of a bee sting   Entwined together in a memory long passed      CHORUS   As the years go by I remember the moments   The sound of your voice   Your particular sent   Sometimes I eulogize   I mythologize   Secnes cut from a day that came and went      Whenever dusk falls in April or May   I feel like I'm back in the yard where I played   And it feels like the day I knew you'd gone away   They never let me say goodbye to you   They thought I was too young and wouldn't know what to do   But I'm telling you right now   That was their mistake   Why did you leave me   Why did you go right then   Did you know somehow that I'd never be what I am   If you were here to guide my hand   To this day