the other side

"meet me on the other side, meet me on the other side"

as the first notes of this song begin to play i see myself as a little kid playing wherever i was...

i see myself falling and you leaving all you had in your hands, eggs included, to run and save me from a scratch.

i feel these wet things we call tears falling, but i cant help them, i cant control them.

i love you too much to think of it, but i think about it all day long

"see you on the other side"

i'll never forget the last time i saw you.

you looked so old, so gray. your pale blue eyes were so filled with sadness, so empty.

your face, filled with wrinkles.

now i remember being little, how many times i ran to hide between your legs looking for safety. how many times you held me and told me that i was your whole world.

i never believed that, until that last time i saw you. and i saw your empty eyes sparkle for a little moment and a tear fall.

and now im choking, im drowning in tears.

because i know, i feel it in my bones.. that the next time i see you, it'll be on the other side.

"we may race, we may run but not undo what has been done, change the moment when its gone"

i wonder, NOW i wonder if i ever told you that i love you. i think i never did.

would that be wrong now?

if i stood up and went to the phone and called you and told you i love you?

it might be a little out of line.

so, you'll go and you'll never know how much you meant to me, how much you MEAN. i mean you MEAN. you'll always mean so much to me.. of all the things i've done, of all the people i've let down.. you're the only one that really cares, that really matters.

you're the one i'll fight my whole life to not let down.

"meet me on the other side..."

i dont believe in heaven, certainly not in hell

i know all the wrong we do in earth is payed right here.

but i know you'll go somewhere great

i know that you'll always be my only one

and i know that when my time comes, you'll be there waiting for me,

as much as it hurts

on the other side

(the other side- David Gray)