Everyone knows that Cancer
Takes bites of every family
And it eats up families whole


Dance around the issue
Take issue with the answers provided

The past few years radiate with treatment
But to every day she'll put her cap on and greet them
She's got demons but you'll never meet them

Yeah we hope one day that she can finally beat them all

She laughs for us

She laughs so we don't worry
She smiles through the pain
And keeps the details blurry


My intentions are not to expose
The depths of her trouble aren't mine to disclose

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose
It drips down to the earth and begins to compose


And if there's one thing that remains
So crystal clear to us
It's that the wondering hands of the gods

Are so !@#$ mysterious

Like there could be a justification

For the lives it takes and the lives that it's taken

This isn't a eulogy

Or a requiem
Just some words I've sketched out
Cause I haven't said them

This isn't about her father or brother
Just a few simple words so she knows that I love her
And tragedy will never disaffect her

I hope she knows how much I respect her

My intentions are not to expose, inverse or repose

The depths of her troubles aren't mine to disclose
But like evening rain on the petal of a rose
It drips down to the earth and begins to compose


A song worth singing
A world that keeps on stinging

And one sinking feeling
It's always worth clinging onto
And a stone at a glass house

That's always worth slinging

She laughs for us

She laughs so we don't worry
She smiles through the pain
And keeps the details blurry


My intentions are not to expose
The depths of her trouble aren't mine to disclose

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose
It drips down to the earth and begins to compose


Saints walk the earth
They all patrol the skies
They're the people right behind you

Riding tandem through the night
It's the comfort that's discovered
Through two sets of eyes

It's the hand that stills the other
That shakes like candlelight
Like candlelight