sweetness lived beyond the night, just behind my door

a love you see, a friend to me and everything more

once a child in the twice the time,

her laughs and tears soon became mine

we’d run across the fields and days, forever we’d say

 sweetness played the momma’s hand, I’d pretend the man

skipped the roadside, played the field side, fantasies we had raced through school two laughin’ fools

time was ours at every turn

up and under, rolled like thunder, we’d love to burn

  

Lassie comes to lady as sweetness comes to sorrow

faster than a stolen glance the day becomes the ‘morrow school days soon are family ways

the fire of youth is left in embers

sweetness swears she can still, still remember

chance and distance separate us, somewhere comes the night

in those eyes that once were candy, something just ain’t right

a whisper here, a shout in fear,

a husband’s voice can soon be heard

sweetness leaves me wondering with no word

-solo-

shotgun blast and soon the past is shattered with the night husband’s dead beyond the bed, sweetness out of sight days of youth distort the truth, I wile away each ageing hour wonderin’ how sweetness turns, turns to sour

sweetness lived all there is, hurt on fire, no desire

sweetness goes, time sure knows that

years and miles steal the child