You died just getting on with your life   Wasn’t drugs, a car wreck, or a knife   Your pride could override all   So strong you just couldn’t fall   Simple self-neglect killed you   But I’m guilty of some too   Carrying that guilt from now on   Who would have guessed you’d be soon gone   Knew you’d forgive – time to burn   Calls not returned   A legacy of loose ends   Not resting easy my old friend      The buddy I left behind me   A living, breathing memory   Six hundred miles not as far away   As six feet of dirt between us today   Life for you was never dull   I know you’d hate this deadly lull   Heavy silence muffling a cry   Begging for another try   Rest in peace they all say   I can’t imagine you that way   But I’ll come to say let it be   Remembering the lesson you taught me    Because I’ve at long last   We’re all strong as iron, fragile as glass      It’s much too late to ever show how much I care   Once a solid friendship is now a strange feeling in the air   I never wanted to make this boast   But now I can say some of my best friends are gone   We thought we’d watch each other’s lives run on   Didn’t really miss you old friend ‘til you were dead and gone   Used to be one of those things I feared the most   But now I can say some of my best friends are gone