Dear Friend

“Dear Friend”, a Hello Doggo recording.

Tempo: 152 BPM

Song, lyrics, recording and artwork: CC0 1.0.

Dear Friend — release page

When I sit with quiet thoughts
And call the old days back
I feel the shape of what I sought
And everything I lacked

Old grief comes wearing a new face
Time opens every door
I count the years I thought were gone
And pay for them once more

But if I think of you
Dear friend, dear friend
All losses are restored
And sorrows end

If I can think of you
Even now, even then
All losses are restored
And sorrows end

Then I can drown an eye
That learned so long to stay dry
For precious friends who disappeared
Into death's undated night

And I can weep again for love
I thought was settled, sealed
For vanished faces, vanished roads
For wounds I said were healed

From sorrow into sorrow
I read the same old page
A debt I paid already
Comes asking for its wage

But if I think of you
Dear friend, dear friend
All losses are restored
And sorrows end

If I can think of you
Even now, even then
All losses are restored
And sorrows end

I bring the ledger out again
Every mark, every name
Every grief I buried once
Comes back to make its claim

But one thought crosses all the lines
One face comes through the rain
And what was spent and what was lost
Returns to me again

So let me think of you
Dear friend, dear friend
All losses are restored
And sorrows end

Let me remember you
Even now, even then
All losses are restored
And sorrows end
All losses are restored
And all sorrows end

If I can think of you
Dear friend

Inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30.