Lucky 🍀

If I could bring you back
Even just for a day
I’d quiet all the noise
And listen to what you had to say
I’d take the day off work
I’d fill my tank to the top
We’d drive to all the places
We never did get a chance to stop
I’d drive us to Pittsburgh
Under the bridge from Perks
The book we’d quote like scripture
One of our secret little quirks

If I could bring you back
Even just for a day
I’d spend every second
Trying to convince you to stay
We’d listen to our favorite songs
And talk like Emerson and Thoreau
We’d scream all the lyrics
And I’d beg you not to go
We’d walk through the graveyard
Like so many times we had before
We made tales up about the people
The souls no one visited anymore
We talked to these strangers
As if they were our friends
It hurt us that they were forgotten
And this was where their legacy ends

If I could bring you back
Even just for a day
We’d go party with our friends
And drink our beers in The Hideaway
We’d talk like we used to do
About our sadness and our dreams
We’d get drunk off Irish whiskey
And watch the stars as they’d gleam
We’d talk about the future
And space and time and the world
As the Earth continues spinning
We'd be left standing still
We’d talk about the profound
The ghosts we always tried to hide
We’d talk about our demons
And the fears we push aside
You’d tell me wild theories
Warm and comforting like sunshine
Your heart was always so full of love
You could always read between the lines

If I could bring you back
Even just for a day
I’d do anything for that chance
If it meant you didn’t slip away
We’d get a table at the diner
At some long hour of the night
Our last day almost over
You’d tell me it’s going to be alright
I’d tell you that you were loved
Something it seems you always knew
But knowing is not the same as feeling
If only you could’ve loved yourself, too
I’d give anything I had
To not have it end this way
If I could bring you back
Even just for a day