He was a very special warm and gentle person  who put music in the world and spoke in rhyme  and it hurts me that i never really knew him  'cause all it would have taken was some time    you know he allways seemed to be there whan i stumbled  and when the mountains got to steep for me to climb  and it tears me up to think i never touched him  'cause all it would have taken was some time    ain't that just the way that life goes down, down, down, down  moving way to fast on much to slow  i'm getting up, getting high, getting down, get no no nowhere  not getting into someone i should know    now he's in an other place and i can't reach him  and i feel as though i'm guilty for a crime  i took all he had to give and gave him nothing  and all it would have taken was some time    ain't that just the way,...