Vienna Teng - Say Uncle Lyrics
everyone agrees it came too soonit was only meant to be an intersectionyou kept fear of death in back pocket of your jeansin the palm of your hand, affectionit came like a sudden gust of windleaving them, bewildered, to ask howI recall last time we met you said we'd meet againthe irony is only bitter nowthese days everyone cries "say uncle"they want to touch your spirit lest it diefor this your sons and widow gather with us at the tableto form a healing circle for our new demisethese days everyone cries "say uncle"I retrieve the memories quickly as I canadd them to the portrait we all draw in our mindsyour body gone, we shall keep the manI close my eyes and hope they do not fadethese remnants of a voice and of a smileimages of landscape cloaked in forest greenlike your life unfolding mile by milea fierce embrace, a word of thanksa cheerful whistle and hours in a vansomehow these pieces must bring back the man you werethough the ocean claims your ashes on the sandchorus
