Song For A Friend Soon Gone
--words and music by Michael Stanley

from "Michael Stanley", 1973, Tumbleweed Records



Here's a song for a friend soon gone
A friend whose life and mine became
  Entwined
Leaving soon for a lifetime
Leaving part of you behind...

Four years gone from a little room
Where fears and secrets battled hopes
  And dreams
We spoke of love and life and table
  Wine
And the way sometimes things aren't
  Just what they seem...

	Here's a song for you friend
	Cause I never was too much at goodbye
	So we'll raise our glasses high
	As a tear comes to my eye
	And here's hoping that we'll meet bye
	  And bye...

Sometimes we'd stop and wonder
Just where we were going now
Holding hands out to each other
Hoping for the best somehow...

Here's a song for a friend soon gone
A friend whose life and mine became
  Entwined
Leaving soon for a lifetime
Leaving part of you behind...

	Here's a song for you friend
	Cause I never was too much at goodbye
	So we'll raise our glasses high
	As a tear comes to my eye
	And here's hoping that we'll meet bye
	  And bye...
	And here's hoping that we'll meet bye
	  And bye...