Everyone knows that cancer

Takes bites of every family

And it eats some 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



And if there's one thing that remains

So crystal clear to us

It's that the wandering hands of the gods

Are so goddamn mysterious



Like there could be a justification

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



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, in verse or in prose

The depths of her troubles aren't mine to disclose

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose



A song worth singing

A wound that keeps on stinging

And that 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



Saints walk the earth

They don't patrol the skies

They're the people right behind you

Riding tandem through the night

Between two sets of eyes

It's the hand that stills the other

That shakes like candlelight

Like candlelight