Song for a Dead Friend

Danny my friend I think you knew me better Than I ever knew you Cause you read every chapter And I just glossed right over them And pretended I knew But I believed in you I loved you for your brilliance And your way of making everything absurd And I relied on you to make me see The foolishness of paragraphs That were better as one word What could I have told you To make you think again We draw the same conclusions But we choose a different end When you tear it down It only looks more ragged And when you build it up It only looks more fake So why not let it be At least until tomorrow And then you just might see Your sad mistake Cause life has more to give Than what you take Danny my friend Forgive me if I break our rule But I think it's overdue I really cared about you I didn't think that I could love a friend As much as I loved you And we were always friends We were Captain Jim and Billy The super-human crime-avenging twins Oh I'm gonna miss you I truly am alone now Because there's no one To congratulate my sins I wish I could have been for you A more consistent friend The chapters that I skipped I'm gonna have to read again But when I tear it down It only looks more ragged And when I build it up It only looks more fake But I can't let it be Because part of me died with you And there's lots of pages Missing from my book You had more to give Than what I took