You Were There Lyrics

You don't know me, you never will

Because you're dead

I don't know you, I only listened

To your chants

I used to listen to your album

Everyday

When everything in my life was

Just a mess

When life was dark, when I was crying

In my bed

I played your songs loud in my head-phones

'Til I felt

A little less alone because

You felt the same

When I was seventeen, just like your

Album name

I used to wish that things would change

Stuck in my bed

I used to wonder if I'd make it

To your age

I used to spend my days just

Waiting in my room

Hoping it would not forever

Be my fate

And to be honest, I don't know

What happened then

I was just trying to survive

Another day

And well, somehow I survived

Until they changed

And now I'm as old as you were

And I'm okay

You would be twenty-five today

If you were there

I wonder what you would be doing

In this place

I wonder what new kinds of songs

You would have made

You would be twenty-five today

Except you're dead

I wonder how things would have changed

If we had met

We prolly would not have gotten

Together well

But I grew up, I'm walking where

You paved the way

I wonder what you'd think of that

If you were there

In any way

When I was down and I was crying

In my bed

When I was lonely with nobody

There to help

When all I could do was play your songs

To numb the pain

When all I needed was somebody

To be there, when

I needed something to hang on to

Then you were there, when

I needed something to lift the blues

Then you were there, when

I needed to feel understood

Then you were there, when

I needed to be less alone

Then you were there

So thank you

For being there